Chapter 18. Conclusion--The Perfection of Renunciation
TEXT 60
svabhava-jena kaunteya
nibaddhah svena karmana
kartum necchasi yan mohat
karisyasy avaso 'pi tat
SYNONYMS
svabhava-jena--by
one's own nature; kaunteya--O son of Kunti; nibaddhah--conditioned;
svena--by one's own; karmana--activities; kartum--to
do; na--not; icchasi--like; yat--that; mohat--by
illusion; karisyasi--you will act; avasah--imperceptibly;
api--even; tat--that.
TRANSLATION
Under illusion
you are now declining to act according to My direction. But, compelled
by 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.
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