The Fruit Embittered. Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Sanyasa is renunciation;
Tyaga is resignation.

To give up action (desires driven)
Is renunciation;
To give up the fruit of action
Is resignation.

The fruit propels the desire.
The desire propels the action.

Abandoning actions
Obligatory out of delusion
Is not Tyaga.

Giving up actions
Troublesome but a must
Is not Tyaga

Doing actions, a must,
Giving up the fruit
Is real Tyaga.

The old age
Without Sanyasa and Tyaga
Is a bitter fruit to the rest.

(Based on the last chapter of the Gita)
30.10.2014