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The intelligent renouncer situated in the mode of goodness, neither hateful of inauspicious work nor attached to
auspicious work, has no doubts about work.
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It is indeed impossible for an embodied being to give up all activities. But he who renounces the fruits of action is
called one who has truly renounced.
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For one who is not renounced, the threefold fruits of action -- desirable, undesirable and mixed -- accrue after
death. But those who are in the renounced order of life have no such result to suffer or enjoy.
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O mighty-armed Arjuna, according to the Vedanta there are five causes for the accomplishment of all action. Now
learn of these from Me.
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The place of action [the body], the performer, the various senses, the many different kinds of endeavor, and
ultimately the Supersoul -- these are the five factors of action.
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Whatever right or wrong action a man performs by body, mind or speech is caused by these five factors.
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Therefore one who thinks himself the only doer, not considering the five factors, is certainly not very intelligent and
cannot see things as they are.
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One who is not motivated by false ego, whose intelligence is not entangled, though he kills men in this world, does
not kill. Nor is he bound by his actions.
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Knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the knower are the three factors that motivate action; the senses, the
work and the doer are the three constituents of action.
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According to the three different modes of material nature, there are three kinds of knowledge, action and
performer of action. Now hear of them from Me.
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That knowledge by which one undivided spiritual nature is seen in all living entities, though they are divided into
innumerable forms, you should understand to be in the mode of goodness.
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That knowledge by which one sees that in every different body there is a different type of living entity you should
understand to be in the mode of passion.
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And that knowledge by which one is attached to one kind of work as the all in all, without knowledge of the truth,
and which is very meager, is said to be in the mode of darkness.
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That action which is regulated and which is performed without attachment, without love or hatred, and without
desire for fruitive results is said to be in the mode of goodness.
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But action performed with great effort by one seeking to gratify his desires, and enacted from a sense of false ego,
is called action in the mode of passion.
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That action performed in illusion, in disregard of scriptural injunctions, and without concern for future bondage or
for violence or distress caused to others is said to be in the mode of ignorance.
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One who performs his duty without association with the modes of material nature, without false ego, with great
determination and enthusiasm, and without wavering in success or failure is said to be a worker in the mode of
goodness.
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The worker who is attached to work and the fruits of work, desiring to enjoy those fruits, and who is greedy,
always envious, impure, and moved by joy and sorrow, is said to be in the mode of passion.
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The worker who is always engaged in work against the injunctions of the scripture, who is materialistic, obstinate,
cheating and expert in insulting others, and who is lazy, always morose and procrastinating is said to be a worker in
the mode of ignorance.
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O winner of wealth, now please listen as I tell you in detail of the different kinds of understanding and
determination, according to the three modes of material nature.
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O son of Prtha, that understanding by which one knows what ought to be done and what ought not to be done,
what is to be feared and what is not to be feared, what is binding and what is liberating, is in the mode of goodness.
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O son of Prtha, that understanding which cannot distinguish between religion and irreligion, between action that
should be done and action that should not be done, is in the mode of passion.
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That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and religion to be irreligion, under the spell of illusion
and darkness, and strives always in the wrong direction, O Partha, is in the mode of ignorance.
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O son of Prtha, that determination which is unbreakable, which is sustained with steadfastness by yoga practice,
and which thus controls the activities of the mind, life and senses is determination in the mode of goodness.
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But that determination by which one holds fast to fruitive results in religion, economic development and sense
gratification is of the nature of passion, O Arjuna.
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And that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness and illusion -- such
unintelligent determination, O son of Prtha, is in the mode of darkness.
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O best of the Bharatas, now please hear from Me about the three kinds of happiness by which the conditioned soul
enjoys, and by which he sometimes comes to the end of all distress.
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That which in the beginning may be just like poison but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to
self-realization is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness.
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That happiness which is derived from contact of the senses with their objects and which appears like nectar at first
but poison at the end is said to be of the nature of passion.
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And that happiness which is blind to self-realization, which is delusion from beginning to end and which arises from
sleep, laziness and illusion is said to be of the nature of ignorance.
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