Krishna warns that prescribed duties should never be renounced — abandoning them out of delusion is tamasic. All traditions affirm the importance of duty. Shankara distinguishes between tamasic renunciation (abandoning duty from confusion) and genuine transcendence (knowing the Self is not the doer). Ramanuja teaches that duties assigned by scripture and the Lord must be fulfilled. Madhva insists that prescribed duties are divinely assigned — to abandon them defies God's will. Abhinavagupta explains that confusing laziness with freedom represents the deepest misunderstanding — true liberation is not absence of action but absence of limitation. Vallabha teaches that abandoning duty dishonors the Lord who assigned it; in pushti-marga, every station in life is Krishna's gift. The bhakti tradition holds that fulfilling one's duties is itself a form of devotion. Tilak issues a direct command: never abandon your duty, however challenging. Vivekananda calls abandoning duty from delusion spiritual cowardice. The traditions unanimously agree: the desire to escape difficulty under the guise of renunciation is not wisdom but weakness.