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Chapter 18

Chapter 18 · Verse 4

Moksha Sannyasa Yoga

मोक्षसंन्यासयोग

निश्चयं शृणु मे तत्र त्यागे भरतसत्तम | त्यागो हि पुरुषव्याघ्र त्रिविधः सम्प्रकीर्तितः ||१८-४||

niścayaṃ śṛṇu me tatra tyāge bharatasattama . tyāgo hi puruṣavyāghra trividhaḥ samprakīrtitaḥ ||18-4||

In plain words

Now the Lord gives His own decisive opinion. It is declared in the scriptures that renunciation is of three kinds viz.. Sattvic.

Translation

18.4 Listen to My decision, O Arjuna, about abandonment; for abandonment (Tyaga) is declared to be of three kinds.

Meaning

Now the Lord gives His own decisive opinion. It is declared in the scriptures that renunciation is of three kinds viz.. Sattvic. Rajasic and Tamasic. The Lord alone can teach the truth about the subject. Whoever wants to be liberated from the miseries of this world must understand the real nature of renunciation.

Word by word

निश्चयम् conclusion or the final truth श्रृणु hear मे My तत्र there त्यागे about abandonment भरतसत्तम O best of the Bharatas त्यागः abandonment हि verily पुरुषव्याघ्र O best of men त्रिविधः of three kinds संप्रकीर्तितः has been declared (to be).