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Bhagavad Gita 18.60

By Bhagavan Sri Krishna | Published 08/17/2005
Category: The Gita: Chapter 18
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Text 60 

svabhava-jena kaunteya
nibaddhah svena karmana
kartum necchasi yan mohat
karishyasy avaso ’pi tat

Translation

Under illusion you are now declining to act according to My direction. But, compelled by the work born of your own nature, you will act all the same, O son of Kunti.

Commentary by Srila Prabhupada

If one refuses to act under the direction of the Supreme Lord, then he is compelled to act by the modes in which he is situated. Everyone is under the spell of a particular combination of the modes of nature and is acting in that way. But anyone who voluntarily engages himself under the direction of the Supreme Lord becomes glorious.

Commentary by Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur

Here the Lord expands the meaning of what he has just said. You are fettered by your actions arising from previous life impressions that give you qualities of the ksatriya (svabhavajena).


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