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Bhagavad Gītā (Kashmirian recension)18.8

18.8
दुःखमित्येव यः कर्म कायक्लेशभयात् त्यजेत् । स कृत्वा राजसं त्यागं नैव त्यागफलं लभेत् ॥ १८-८ ॥
duḥkhamityeva yaḥ karma kāyakleśabhayāt tyajet | sa kṛtvā rājasaṃ tyāgaṃ naiva tyāgaphalaṃ labhet || 18-8 ||
— who, deeming it merely painful, the action ; — should abandon from fear of bodily affliction ; — he, having made a rājasic relinquishment ; — would not obtain the fruit of relinquishment

He who abandons action merely as painful, from fear of bodily affliction, has made a rājasic relinquishment and would not obtain the fruit of relinquishment at all.