18.5 These should not be given up Krishna speaks
यज्ञदानतपःकर्म न त्याज्यं कार्यमेव तत्
यज्ञो दानं तपश्चैव पावनानि मनीषिणाम्
yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-karma na tyājyaṁ kāryam eva tat
yajño dānaṁ tapaśh chaiva pāvanāni manīṣhiṇām
The acts of offering, giving and austerity should not be given up; they should be done. To give them up is a mistake.
Explanation
They should be done.
Offering, giving and austerity should not be given up — to give them up is a mistake.
The dispute of 18.3 is settled in favour of doing. And the word for the error is moha, delusion, which is the same diagnosis chapter 2 made of Arjuna's proposal to withdraw.
Word by word
- yajña
- sacrifice
- dāna
- charity
- tapaḥ
- penance
- karma
- actions
- na
- never
- tyājyam
- should be abandoned
- kāryam eva
- must certainly be performed
- tat
- that
- yajñaḥ
- sacrifice
- dānam
- charity
- tapaḥ
- penance
- cha
- and
- eva
- indeed
- pāvanāni
- purifying
- manīṣhiṇām
- for the wise
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