Good Morning Message for Today, Bhagavad Gita Quote, Shri Krishna on Prescribed Duties and Renunciation

By: Debosmita Ghosh, Times Now Digital
Jun 12, 2023

Today’s Bhagavad Gita Quote

नियतस्य तु सन्न्यास: कर्मणो नोपपद्यते|मोहात्तस्य परित्यागस्तामस: परिकीर्तित:||

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Today’s Bhagavad Gita Quote in English

For today’s quote, we picked Chapter 18 Verse 7. In the Bhagavad Gita quote, Shri Krishna talks about prescribed duties and renunciation. The Bhagavad Gita quote says, “niyatasya tu sannyasah karmano nopapadyate, mohat tasya parityagas tamasah parikirtitah.”

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Translation of the Bhagavad Gita Quote

In this verse of the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says to Arjuna about prescribed duties and renunciation. He says prescribed duties should never be renounced. Krishna says that such deluded renunciation is made in the mode of ignorance.

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Duties and Renunciation

Shri Krisha says that renouncing prohibited action is proper. Renouncing desire for the results of action is also proper. However, renouncing prescribed duties is never proper.

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Duties and Renunciation

Prescribed duties help to purify the mind and elevate it from tamo guna to rajo guna to sattva guna. When one abandons prescribed duties, it shows their foolishness and it is said to be done in the mode of ignorance.

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