Whatever action one gives up merely because it is troublesome, out of fear of bodily pain, that man, having made a relinquishment of the quality of rajas, born of rajas, does not gain the fruit of relinquishment, that is, he does not gain liberation, which is the fruit of the giving up of all action that rests on knowledge. What then is the relinquishment of sattva? The Lord says.

Although action is, by succession, the means of liberation, still, since it is to be accomplished by the gaining of substances which is of the nature of pain, and since, by being of much toil, it makes for bodily distress, it casts down the mind; the man who, out of fear of that, with the thought 'for the accomplishing of the discipline one should strive at the practice of knowledge alone', would relinquish the action of the great sacrifices and the rest belonging to the stages of life, has made a rajasic relinquishment, a relinquishment rooted in rajas, holding the meaning of scripture not as it truly stands; and he does not gain the fruit of relinquishment, which is the form of the rise of knowledge. For it will be said, 'the understanding that knows not as it truly is, that, Partha, is rajasic'. For action is not, by a seen way, the cause of the mind's serenity; rather, it is so by way of the grace of the Blessed One.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.