Friday, May 14, 2021

Srimad Bhagavat Gita commentary chapter 18 verse 7

 Chapter 18 verse 7               

“Prescribed duties should never be renounced. Such deluded renunciation is said to be in the mode of ignorance.” 

There are several people in India who give up a tough life and become a renunciate. More often than not, they become fringe elements in society, drug addicts and drag on the resources of the society as glorified beggars and parasites. This is not the concept of renunciation prescribed by Bhagwan. There is a reason why each of us souls has been provided the life we have been given. To act diligently our prescribed duties and exhaust our vasanas and develop invaluable learning of the eternal aspects of love, compassion, charity, penance, truth and non-violence etc. Renouncing prescribed duties just because it is hard is the highest form of ignorance.

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