നിയതസ്യ തു സംന്യാസഃ കര്മണോ നോപപദ്യതേ മോഹാത്തസ്യ പരിത്യാഗസ്താമസഃ പരികീര്ത്തിതഃ
niyatasya tu saṃnyāsaḥ karmaṇo nopapadyate mohāttasya parityāgastāmasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ
English Translation
The abandoning of daily obligatory acts (nityakamas) is not justifiable. Giving up that through delusion is declared to be based on tamas.
Explanation · English
Renunciation of obligatory action is not proper because it is purifying in the case of an ignorant man. Should a man renounce actions that he should perform as a duty? such renunciation can only be of the ality of darkness. Prescribed duties must not be abandoned and if anyone does so? he is certainly deluded by ignorance. Tamas is ignorance.Niyata Prescribed according to ones religion. To hold that a duty is obligatory and then to relinish it is indeed selfcontradictory.