Bhagavad-Gita Chapter 18.1 to 18.15

Arjuna’s request: Explain renunciation( Tyaga) and renounced order(sanyas) of life? Krishna’s reply: To give up results of activities(Tyaga) That state of doing so is Sanyas Acts of CHARITY, PENANCE & SACRIFICE should be maintained

Krishna instructs Arjuna

Renunciation Renunciation in ignorance: Giving up prescribed duties out of illusion Renunciation in Passion: Giving up prescribed duties out of fear or considering them troublesome Renunciation in Goodness: Performs the prescribed duties but renounces the attachment to the fruits

5 factors of action Whoever renounces the fruit of action is truly renounced For one who is not renounced, 3 fruits desirable and undesirable and mixed accrue after death. For renounced order there is no problem 1)Place of Action 2)Performer 3)The Senses 4)Endeavor 5)The Super Soul

Knowledge on Action Contd… Who is not bound by his actions? Who is not motivated by false ego and who has clear intelligence that is not entangled What motivates any action? Knowledge Object of knowledge Knower What is the basis of any action? Senses The work Doer

Knowledge w.r.t Action Contd… Knowledge in passion: Knowledge by which different type of living entity is seen to be dwelling in different bodies. Knowledge in Goodness: Knowledge by which one undivided spiritual nature is seen in all existences. Knowledge in Ignorance:Knowledge by which one is attached to one kind of work as all in all without knowledge of truth.

Modes of action Action in passion: with great effort, performed to gratify senses and false ego Action in Goodness: Duty bound, with attachment, with out love or hate, renounced the fruits of results Action in Ignorance:performed in illusion with out consideration of future bondage, which inflict injury and is impractical.

Modes of Worker Worker in passion: Attached to the fruits of labor and wants to enjoy them, greedy, envious, impure and moved by happiness and distress Worker in Goodness: Who is free from Mat. attachments and false ego, who is enthusiastic and resolute, who is indifferent from success or failure Worker in Ignorance:Engage in work against injunctions of scriptures, materialistic, obstinate, cheating and expert at insulting others, lazy, morose and procrastinating