Sanskrit · Devanagari
स्वभावजेन कौन्तेय निबद्धः स्वेन कर्मणा। कर्तुं नेच्छसि यन्मोहात्करिष्यस्यवशोपि तत् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
svabhāvajena kaunteya nibaddhaḥ svena karmaṇā kartuṃ necchasi yanmohātkariṣyasyavaśopi tat
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882O son of Kuntī! which through delusion you do not wish to do you will do involuntarily tied down by your own duty flowing from your nature.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।18.60।। --,स्वभावजेन शौर्यादिना यथोक्तेन कौन्तेय निबद्धः निश्चयेन बद्धः स्वेन आत्मीयेन कर्मणा कर्तुं न इच्छसि यत् कर्म? मोहात् अविवेकतः करिष्यसि अवशोऽपि परवश एव तत् कर्म।।यस्मात् --,
87ccc6c5ff4b…Rāmānuja
18.60 For, heroism is the duty of a Ksatriya born of his nature. Impelled by your own duty of heroism born of your own nature, you will lose self-control when you get the taunts of your enemies. Unable to suffer it, you will be compelled to engage them in battle, which, now, out of delusion and ignorance, you do not desire to do. All beings have been ordained by Me to follow their Prakrti acired by their previous Karmas. Listen about it:
9c7be321ba2b…Swami Sivananda
18.60 स्वभावजेन born of (thy) own nature? कौन्तेय O son of Kunti? निबद्धः bound? स्वेन (thy) own? कर्मणा by action? कर्तुम् to do? न not? इच्छसि (thou) wishest? यत् which? मोहात् from delusion? करिष्यसि (thou) shalt do? अवशः helpless? अपि also? तत् that.Commentary Thou art endowed? O Arjuna? with martial alities? prowess? valour? skill? etc. Thou art? therefore? bound by these innate alities. Thou wilt be forced to fight by thy own nature. Nature will constrain thee to fight? much against thy will.
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