niyatasya tu sannyasah karmano nopapadyate mohat tasya parityagas tamasah parikirtitah
Renunciation of prescribed duties is not appropriate. Abandoning one's obligatory actions out of delusion is declared to be tamasic renunciation. Ignorance-driven withdrawal from duty leads not to liberation but to further bondage.
- •Abandoning prescribed duties is never justified
- •Renunciation born of delusion is classified as tamasic
- •Tamas masquerades as spirituality when it drives avoidance of duty