Renunciation

Sannyāsa and tyāga — what to give up, and how — 52 verses, starred ones first.

1. 16.21 ★ Three gates to hell, destructive of the self: kāma, krodha, lobha. Therefore abandon this triad.
2. 18.66 ★ Abandon all dharmas, take refuge in Me alone — I will liberate you from all sins; do not grieve.
3. 6.1 ☆ Who acts in duty without depending on fruit — that one is the true sannyāsī and yogī, not the fireless or the inactive.
4. 6.24 ☆ Abandon all desires born of mental planning — without remainder — and restrain the senses completely, by the mind alone.
5. 16.2 ☆ More daivī qualities: ahiṃsā, satya, akrodha, tyāga, śānti, apaiśuna, dayā, aloluptva, mārdava, hrī, acāpala.
6. 18.2 ☆ Sannyāsa = abandoning desire-motivated action; tyāga = abandoning fruits of ALL action — say the learned.
7. 18.9 ☆ Sāttvic tyāga: niyata karma done ONLY because 'this must be done,' having abandoned attachment and fruit.
8. 18.17 ☆ One with no ego-doer-sense, whose buddhi is untainted — even while killing all these beings, kills not, is not bound.
9. 1.35 Even the entire universe as a prize — it is not worth this price.
10. 2.33 If you don't fight this righteous battle, you abandon your duty and honor — and invite the consequences.
11. 2.59 Discipline removes the object but longing persists. Only direct experience of the Supreme removes the longing itself.
12. 3.4 Freedom from karma's bonds does not come from inaction. Perfection does not come from mere renunciation.
13. 3.6 Sitting still while the mind craves sense-objects is not discipline — the Gita calls it hypocrisy.
14. 4.20 Attachment to fruits abandoned, ever content, no dependence — fully active yet truly doing nothing at all.
15. 4.41 Action renounced through yoga, doubt cut by knowledge, self-possessed — actions cannot bind that person.
16. 5.1 Arjuna asks: You praise both renunciation and action — tell me decisively which is truly better.
17. 5.2 Both sannyāsa and karma-yoga lead to liberation — karma-yoga surpasses mere renunciation.
18. 5.3 The eternal renunciant neither desires nor hates — free from all opposites, easily freed from bondage.
19. 5.6 Renunciation without yoga is painful to achieve — the yoga-joined muni attains Brahman swiftly.
20. 5.10 Surrendering all actions to Brahman, abandoning attachment — like a lotus leaf, sin never clings.
21. 5.11 Yogis act with body, mind, intellect, and bare senses — abandoning attachment — solely for self-purification.
22. 5.12 The yogi abandons fruit and attains lasting peace. The non-yogi, bound to fruit by desire, is fettered.
23. 5.13 The self-controlled one mentally renounces all actions, rests happily in the nine-gated city — not acting, not causing.
24. 6.2 What they call sannyāsa — know it as yoga, O Pāṇḍava — for none becomes a yogī without renouncing saṃkalpa.
25. 6.4 When unattached to sense objects and to actions, and all saṃkalpas are renounced — then one is called yogārūḍha.
26. 9.28 Thus freed from karma's bonds — both good and evil fruits — unified in renunciation-yoga, liberated, you come to Me.
27. 12.6 Offer all actions to Me alone, worship through undivided yoga — the mat-parāḥ hold Me as their supreme goal.
28. 12.11 Unable even to act for My sake? Then take refuge in Me, abandon all fruits of action — with self-restraint.
29. 12.12 Jñāna beats abhyāsa, dhyāna beats jñāna — but karma-phala-tyāga beats all; from tyāga, peace follows at once!
30. 14.25 Equal in honor and disgrace, equal to friend and foe, abandoning all undertakings — he has gone beyond guṇas.
31. 16.7 The āsurī know neither pravṛtti nor nivṛtti; purity, good conduct, and truth are all absent in them.
32. 16.23 One who abandons śāstra-vidhi to act from desire's impulse attains neither siddhi, nor sukha, nor the Supreme Goal.
33. 17.11 Sāttvic yajña: performed as ordained, without fruit-desire, with the conviction 'this must be done.'
34. 17.25 Uttering 'Tat,' without fruit-desire, mokṣa-seekers perform yajña, tapas, and various acts of dāna.
35. 18.1 Arjuna asks: what is sannyāsa vs. tyāga? Tell me distinctly, O Mighty-armed, Hṛṣīkeśa, Keśi-slayer.
36. 18.3 Some say all karma is faulty and should be abandoned; others say yajña-dāna-tapas must not be abandoned.
37. 18.4 Hear My definitive word on tyāga, O best of Bharatas — tyāga has been declared three-fold, O tiger among men.
38. 18.5 Yajña, dāna, and tapas must NOT be abandoned — they must be performed; they are purifiers of the wise.
39. 18.6 Even yajña-dāna-tapas must be performed having abandoned attachment and fruits — my settled, highest opinion.
40. 18.7 Renouncing ordained/niyata karma is not appropriate; its abandonment through delusion is declared tāmasic.
41. 18.8 Rājasic tyāga: abandoning action as painful/from fear of body-trouble — obtains no fruit of tyāga.
42. 18.10 The sāttvic tyāgī: neither hates difficult action nor clings to pleasant — sattva-pervaded, wise, doubts severed.
43. 18.11 No embodied being can abandon ALL action; the true tyāgī is the karma-phala-tyāgī — the fruit-abandoner.
44. 18.12 Three-fold karma-fruit (evil/good/mixed) accrues after death to non-tyāgīs — never at all to genuine renouncers.
45. 18.13 Learn these five causes of all action from Me, O Mighty-armed — as declared in the Sāṃkhya final teaching.
46. 18.23 Sāttvic karma: prescribed, attachment-free, without rāga-dveṣa, by one not seeking fruit.
47. 18.48 Do not abandon one's innate duty even if imperfect — all undertakings are enveloped by fault as fire by smoke.
48. 18.49 The unattached-minded, self-conquered, desire-free one attains supreme naiskarmya-siddhi through sannyāsa.
49. 18.50 Learn briefly from Me how one who has attained siddhi attains Brahman — the supreme culmination of knowledge.
50. 18.51 Endued with pure buddhi, regulating self with dhṛti, renouncing sense-objects, setting aside rāga-dveṣa —
51. 18.56 Even doing all actions always, with refuge in Me — by My grace one attains the eternal imperishable abode.
52. 18.57 Mentally offering all actions to Me, with Me as highest — resorting to buddhi-yoga, always be mind-in-Me.