Bhagavad Gita 18.7
नियतस्य तु सन्न्यासः कर्मणो नोपपद्यते । मोहात्तस्य परित्यागस्तामसः परिकीर्तितः ॥
niyatasya tu sannyāsaḥ karmaṇo nopapadyate / mohāt tasya parityāgas tāmasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ
Translation
Renunciation of obligatory action is not warranted. Abandonment of such action from delusion is declared to be of the dark sort.
Reflection
What duty have you walked away from while telling yourself a story about higher pursuits?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Eighteen
First of the three tyagas, the tamasika. Niyatam karma, your given work, the duty that is yours by station and situation, is not a candidate for renunciation. To walk away from it under the cover of spiritual language is delusion, not freedom. Krishna names this bluntly. People drop obligations all the time in the name of higher pursuits. The Gita refuses that move. The classroom is the householder's day, the soldier's field, the parent's kitchen. To exit the classroom because you have decided you are too advanced for it is moha, the same fog that gripped Arjuna in chapter one. Tyaga of niyatam karma is not tyaga at all. It is escape.