1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 18 - Moksha Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 30

The entire content of this mail is from Shri V N Gopala Desikan's  Srimad Bhagavad Gita, published by Vishishtadvaita Research Centre, Chennai and The Bhagavad Gita by Swami Chidbhavananda published by Ramakrishna Mission

The Three Gunas Give Impetus to Karma - 18-40

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 18 - Moksha Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 30

Swami Ramanuja - Avatara of Adisesha

Pravrittim cha nivrittim cha kaarya kaarye bhaya bhaye I

Bandham moksham cha ya vetthi buddhih sa partha sattviki II sloka 30

प्रवृतिं च निवृत्तिं च कार्य कार्ये भया भये I 

बन्धं मोक्षं च य वेत्ति बुद्धि स पार्थ सात्त्विकी II श्लोक 30

The intellect which knows the paths of work and renunciation, right and wrong action, fer and fearlessness, bondage and liberation - that intellect, O Partha, is sattvika.

The buddhi which knows correctly: 

The works required to be done, fr attaining worldly prosperity; the means or upaya for attaining moksha; what should be done and what should not be done for achieving teh above results, by people belonging to different castes and asramas, at different times, places and circumstances; 

that obeying the shastras is the cause of fear; that acting according to shastras will cause fearlessness; the true nature of samsara and the true nature of moksha; such a buddhi is called as sattvika.

The world is unreal as long as you have not realised Iswara. For, you do not recognise his presence in things worldly. The feeling of "I and Mine" has gone deep into you. Therefore you have become bound to this world, You are drowning yourself increasingly in teh ocean of samsara. Though the path of liberation is easy and straight, delusion has covered our eyes and so you knock about here and there like a blind man! You know that samsara is impermanent. Ponder over the house you live in - How many have been born and died in it? Worldly things appear and disappear in a trice. Those whom you hold as your kith and kin are not so after you die. Still how deep is man's attachment to this world! 

Though nobody at home is dependent on the old man, he finds no time to go to Benares. HE gets no leisure for devotional activities/ " What will become of my grandson Harisa, if I don't look after him? he says and gets attached to the child. This is the deplorable way of the worldly man.