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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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A poet has said this while inspiring people to seek the joy of self-sacrifice.
"If you want real peace and felicity eat the fruit of self-sacrifice. What is there in these worldly delights? They are like false mangoes and false almonds."
In the following stanzas, taken from the Bhagavad Gitā, we get an account of the differences amçng the sacrifices prompted by the three gunas (qualities), namely Tamasa (तामस), Rajasa (राजस) and Satvika (सात्विक) नियतस्य तु संन्यासः
कर्मणो नोपपद्यते । मोहात्तस्य परित्यागः
तामसः परिकोत्तितः ॥ दुःख मित्येव यत्कर्म
कायक्लेशभयात् त्यजेत् । स कृत्वा राजसं त्यागम
नैव त्यागफलं लभेत् ॥ कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म
नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन ! सगं त्यक्त्वा फलञ्चैव
स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः ॥ Niyatasya tu sanyāsah
Karmano nopapadyate Mohättasya Parityāgah
Tamasah Parikirtitah Dukha mityeva ratkarma
Kāya Kleshabhayāt tyajot Sa kritvārajasam tyāgain
Naivatyā gaphalam labhet Kāryamityeva ratkarma
Niyatam Kriyaterjuna Sangam tyaktva phalanchaiva
Sa tyagah Satvikomatah.
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