Krishna defines renunciant (๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐๐) and says, "Those who neither avoid ๐๐ ๐ช๐จ๐๐๐ก๐ (disagreeable or miserable) action nor attached to ๐ ๐ช๐จ๐๐๐ก๐ (agreeable or well-being) action are ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐๐. Pervaded by purity, being intelligent (๐ข๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ซ๐) he is free from doubts (๐จ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐-๐ง๐๐๐๐ฉ)" (18.10).
We are all motivated to perform ๐ ๐ช๐จ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐จ (actions) and avoid ๐๐ ๐ช๐จ๐๐๐ก๐ ones. We tend to do ๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐จ which are for the well-being of the self, family, organization or society. Though this looks logical, it is the result of the division of ๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐จ as ๐๐ ๐ช๐จ๐๐๐ก๐ and ๐ ๐ช๐จ๐๐๐ก๐. ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ is the one for whom this internal division disappears. Krishna calls them intelligent and in one way, dropping the internal division can be termed as intelligence. Their doubts also disappear when oneness descends with the end of division. As a result, the ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐๐ neither hates nor gets attached to any actions.
Krishna further says, "It is impossible for the embodied beings to give up activities totally. But those who relinquish the fruits of their actions are called ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐๐ (18.11). The threefold fruits of actions -pleasant, unpleasant, and mixed accrues to non-relinquishers but never to the ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐๐ here or hereafter" (18.12).
The fundamental truth of existence is that it is impossible for the embodied beings to give up activities as our survival itself depends on numerous activities like eating and breathing. Krishna gave the path of relinquishing ๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก (fruits of action) and He reiterates this on many occasions.
What happens if one doesn't detach from ๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก? Krishna says threefold ๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก accrues to those who long for it, maybe after the lapse of time, but not for ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐๐. It is our attachment that makes a ๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก pleasant or unpleasant. ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ is the one who drops this attachment and transcends polarities to be ๐๐ฌ๐๐ฃ๐๐-๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ๐ (one who transcended dulaties).
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