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Chapter 18, Verse 60
स्वभावजेन कौन्तेय निबद्धः स्वेन कर्मणा। कर्तुं नेच्छसि यन्मोहात्करिष्यस्यवशोऽपि तत्৷৷
svabhāvajēna kauntēya nibaddhaḥ svēna karmaṇā. kartuṅ nēcchasi yanmōhātkariṣyasyavaśō.pi tat৷৷
Translation
O Arjuna! Thy duty binds thee. From thine own nature has it arisen, and that which in thy delusion thou desire not to do, that very thing thou shalt do. Thou art helpless.
Translation — Purohit Swami
Commentary
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.
Commentary — Swami Sivananda
Sanskrit and transliteration of the Bhagavad Gita. Corpus compiled from the vedabase and the IIT Kanpur Gita Supersite.