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CHAPTER XVIIIArjuna.Fain would I better know, Thou Glorious One!The very truth--Heart's Lord!--of Sannyas,Abstention; and enunciation, Lord!Tyaga; and what separates these twain! Krishna.The poets rightly teach that SannyasIs the foregoing of all acts which springOut of desire; and their wisest sayTyaga is renouncing fruit of acts. There be among the saints some who have heldAll action sinful, and to be renounced;And some who answer, "Nay! the goodly acts--As worship, penance, alms--must be performed!"Hear now My sentence, Best of Bharatas! 'Tis well set forth, O Chaser of thy Foes!Renunciation is of threefold form,And Worship, Penance, Alms, not to be stayed;Nay, to be