Verse 18.2

काम्यानां कर्मणां न्यासं संन्यासं कवयो विदुः ।

सर्वकर्मफलत्यागं प्राहुस्त्यागं विचक्षणाः ॥

18.2

Transliteration

kāmyānāṃ karmaṇāṃ nyāsaṃ saṃnyāsaṃ kavayo viduḥ |

sarvakarmaphalatyāgaṃ prāhustyāgaṃ vicakṣaṇāḥ ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

The Blessed Lord said The sages understand Sannyasa to be the renunciation of action with desire; the wise declare the abandonment of the fruits of all actions as Tyaga.

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Word by word

prompted by desire
of actions
giving up
as renunciation
the sages
know

giving up the fruit of all actions
declare
as relinquishment
the discerning

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Krishna first reports what the learned say. Sages call renunciation (sannyāsa) the giving up of actions done for desired ends. The discerning call relinquishment (tyāga) the letting go of the fruits of all actions. The first definition is about which acts one stops doing; the second is about one's inner attitude toward all acts. By setting them side by side, Krishna prepares to show that the second, inner letting go is what matters most.

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08