Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, Verse 4

Contents

• 1 निश्चयं शृणु मे तत्र त्यागे भरतसत्तम |
• 2 त्यागो हि पुरुषव्याघ्र त्रिविध: सम्प्रकीर्तित: ||
• 3 भावार्थ:
• 4 Translation

निश्चयं शृणु मे तत्र त्यागे भरतसत्तम |

त्यागो हि पुरुषव्याघ्र त्रिविध: सम्प्रकीर्तित: ||

niśhchayaṁ śhṛiṇu me tatra tyāge bharata-sattama
tyāgo hi puruṣha-vyāghra tri-vidhaḥ samprakīrtitaḥ

भावार्थ:

हे पुरुषश्रेष्ठ अर्जुन ! संन्यास और त्याग, इन दोनों में से पहले त्याग के विषय में तू मेरा निश्चय सुन। क्योंकि त्याग सात्विक, राजस और तामस भेद से तीन प्रकार का कहा गया है॥4॥

Translation

Now hear my conclusion on the subject of renunciation, O tiger amongst men, for renunciation has been declared to be of three kinds.

English Translation Of Sri Shankaracharya’s Sanskrit Commentary By Swami Gambirananda

18.4 Bharata-sattama, O the most excellent among the descendants of Bharata; srnu, hear, understand; me, from Me, from My statement; niscayam, the firm conclusion; tatra tyage, regarding that tyaga, regarding these alternative veiws on tyaga and sannyasa as they have been shown. Hi, for; purusavyaghra, O greatest among men; tyagah, tyaga; samprakirtitah, has been clearly declared, has been distinctly spoken of in the scriptures; to be trividhah, of three kinds, threefold, under the classes of tamasa (those based on tamas [Tamas: darkness, mental darkness, ignorance; one of the three alities of everything in Nature. Also see 14.8, and note under 2.45.-Tr.], etc. The Lord has used the word tyaga with the idea that the (primary) meanings of tyaga and sannyasa are verily the same.
Since it is difficult to comprehend this idea, that the primary meanings of the words tyaga and sannyasa can be threefold under the classification based on tamas etc. in the case of one who is unenlightened and who is alified for rites and duties-but not in the case of one who has realized the supreme Goal-,therefore no one else is capable of speaking the truth in this connection. Hence, listen to the firm conclusion of the Lord with regard to the supreme Truth as revealved by the scriptures.

Which, again, is this firm conclusion? In reply the Lord says:

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