Gita doesn't ask man to reject or leave the world for this world is transient and sorrowful. Instead it asks man to turn to God and worship Him for by doing so all his sorrows and pains will disappear in the All-blissful.
Gita (9/33)
किं पुनर्ब्राह्मणाः पुण्या भक्ता राजर्षयस्तथा ।
अनित्यमसुखं लोकमिमं प्राप्य भजस्व माम् ।।
"What then to say of the holy Brahmins and devoted king-sages; having come to this transient and unhappy world, do thou turn to Me and worship Me." The Bhagwat Gita, P. P. Khetan, pp. 349.
"The earthly world preoccupied with the dualities and bound to the immediate transient relations of the hour --- is for man, ---, a world of struggle, suffering and sorrow. The way to liberation is to turn from the outward to the inward, from the appearance created by the material life --- to the divine Reality which waits to manifest itself through the freedom of the spirit. Love of the world, the mask, must change into the love of God, the Truth. Once this secret and inner Godhead is known and is embraced, the whole being and the whole life will undergo a --- transmutation. In place of the ignorance of the lower nature absorbed in its outward works and appearances the eye will open to the vision of God everywhere, ---. The world's sorrow and pain will disappear in the bliss of the All-blissful; our weakness and error and sin will be changed into the all-embracing and all-transforming strength, truth and purity of the Eternal. " - Sri Aurobindo, "Essays on the Gita", pp-335; The Bhagwat Gita, P. P. Khetan, pp. 350.
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