Chapter 18MAHABHARAT
Chapter 18 · Verse 7The Yoga of Liberation and Renunciation

नियतस्य तु संन्यासः कर्मणो नोपपद्यते | मोहात्तस्य परित्यागस्तामसः परिकीर्तितः ||१८-७||

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niyatasya tu saṃnyāsaḥ karmaṇo nopapadyate . mohāttasya parityāgastāmasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ ||18-7||

Verily the renunciation of obligatory action is not proper; the abandonment of the same from delusion is declared to be Tamasic.

18.7 Verily the renunciation of obligatory action is not proper; the abandonment of the same from delusion is declared to be Tamasic.