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BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:60

 

svabhava-jena kaunteya

nibaddhah svena karmana

kartum necchasi yan mohat

karisyasy avaso 'pi tat

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

svabhava-jena--born of your own nature; kaunteya--O son of Kunti;

nibaddhah--conditioned; svena--by your own; karmana--activities;

kartum--to do; na--not; icchasi--you like; yat--that which; mohat--by

illusion; karisyasi--you will do; avasah--involuntarily; api--even;

tat--that.

 

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.

 

PURPORT

 

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.

 

Copyright 1983 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with

permission.

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