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BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:7

 

niyatasya tu sannyasah

karmano nopapadyate

mohat tasya parityagas

tamasah parikirtitah

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

niyatasya--prescribed; tu--but; sannyasah--renunciation; karmanah--of

activities; na--never; upapadyate--is deserved; mohat--by illusion;

tasya--of them; parityagah--renunciation; tamasah--in the mode of

ignorance; parikirtitah--is declared.

 

TRANSLATION

 

Prescribed duties should never be renounced. If one gives up his

prescribed duties because of illusion, such renunciation is said to be

in the mode of ignorance.

 

PURPORT

 

Work for material satisfaction must be given up, but activities which

promote one to spiritual activity, like cooking for the Supreme Lord

and offering the food to the Lord and then accepting the food, are

recommended. It is said that a person in the renounced order of life

should not cook for himself. Cooking for oneself is prohibited, but

cooking for the Supreme Lord is not prohibited. Similarly, a sannyasi

may perform a marriage ceremony to help his disciple in the

advancement of Krsna consciousness. If one renounces such activities,

it is to be understood that he is acting in the mode of darkness.

 

Copyright 1983 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with

permission.

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