Astavakra said:

Duties done and not done well as the pairs of opposites—when do they cease and for whom? Knowing thus, be intent on renunciation and desireless through complete indifference to the world.

Our life is a mixture of opposites—joy and sorrow, success and failure, good and evil and the like. And we have always preferences, which cause us to choose certain things to be done and avoid other things. Hence our conception of duty. So long as we consider this world to be real, we cannot escape the pairs of opposites and eradicate the sense of duty. The only way out of this state of things is to realize the hollowness of the world and renounce it.

We must attempt to renounce craving and desire. There is to be no vow to be fulfilled or a religious right to be performed. Then only can we attempt renunciation by being completely indifferent.

The Astavakra Gita is a short treatise on Advaita Vedanta ascribed to the great sage Astavakra.

Aim Hrim Klim

Picture of Astavakra by Unknown author – https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1880-0-2073, Public Domain, Link