He who abandons action (karma) merely because it is painful, out of fear of bodily trouble (kāyakleśa), Having performed an abandonment of passion (rājasa tyāga), he does not obtain the fruit of abandonment.
When one passionately relinquishes difficult action from fear of bodily harm, he cannot win the fruit of relinquishment.
(8) 'The man who gives up a deed simply because it causes pain or because he shrinks from bodily distress, commits an act of self-surrender that accords with Passion['s way]: assuredly he will not reap the fruit of self-surrender.
18.8 Whatever action one may relinquish merely as being painful, from fear of physical suffering, he, having resorted to renunciation based on rajas, will surely not acquire the fruits of renunciation.
18.8 He who renounces acts as painful from fear of bodily suffering, performs a Rajasika abandonment; he does not gain the fruit of abandonment.
18.8 He who abandons action on account of the fear of bodily trouble (because it is painful), does not obtain the merit of renunciation by doing such Rajasic renunciation.