| 9. Whatever obligatory
work is done, by Arjuna, merely because it ought to be done, by abandoning
attachment and also the fruit that abandonment is deemed to be Sattvic.Abandoning
etc.:These words of the Lord form, as we have said, the authority which
declares that obligatory (nitya) works produce fruits.Or thus:An ignorant
man may even suppose that though the fruits of obligatory works are not
declared in the Scripture, the obligatory works, when performed, do produce
their fruits for the doer in the form of selfregeneration, or by way of
warding off pratyavaya or the sin of nonperformance. But even this supposition
is prevented by the words abandoning the fruits. Hence the appropriateness.
That abandonment: the abandoning of alt attachment for, and of the fruits
of, obligatory works.(Objection):It is the threefold abandonment of works
referred to as samnyasa (xviii. 7)that forms the subject of the present
section (xviii. 4, etc.). Out of the three, the Rajasic and Tamasic (sorts
of abandonment of works) have been treated of. How is it that the abandonment
of attachment and of the fruits of works is spoken of as the third ? It
is something like saying, Three Brahmanas have come two of them are proficient
in shandangas or the six auxiliary sciences, and the third is a Kshatriya·(Answer)
;No such objection can be raised here ; for, the object of this section
is to praise (the abandonment of the fruits of works, on comparing with
the abandonment of works, i e by comparing the two abandonment's), both
being alike abandonments In fast the abandonment of works and the abandonment
of desire for the fruits do agree in so far as they alike imply abandonment.
Accordingly, by despising the two sorts of the abandonment of works, as
Rajasic. |
