BG 18.7

नियतस्य तु सन्न्यासः कर्मणो नोपपद्यते । मोहात् तस्य परित्यागस् तामसः परिकीर्तितः ॥

niyatasya tu sannyāsaḥ karmaṇo nopapadyate | mohāt tasya parityāgas tāmasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ ||

"Renouncing ordained/niyata karma is not appropriate; its abandonment through delusion is declared tāmasic."

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4 translations · all pre-1928 or released to public domain · sources

Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)

[1]
MISSING from index.

Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)

[4]
MISSING from index. Ganguli and Telang used.

K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)

[9]
The renunciation of prescribed action is not proper. Its abandonment through delusion is described as of the quality of darkness.

K.M. Ganguli, The Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva (1883–96)

[13]
The renunciation of an act prescribed in the scriptures is not proper. Its abandonment from delusion is therefore declared to be of the quality of darkness.