Bhagavad Gita
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Verse 59
Chapter 18
Verse 60 of 78
Verse 61
Verse 18.60
स्वभावजेन कौन्तेय निबद्धः स्वेन कर्मणा। कर्तुं नेच्छसि यन्मोहात्करिष्यस्यवशोऽपि तत् ॥18.60॥
18.60 svabhāvajena kaunteya nibaddhaḥ svena karmaṇā kartuṃ necchasi yan mohāt kariṣyasy avaśo ‘pi tat
Translations
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BradOriginal Translation

Bound by your own action (karma), O son of Kunti (Kaunteya), born of your own nature (svabhāva), What you do not wish to do out of delusion (moha), you will do even helplessly.

Stoller MillerLiterary

You are bound by your own action, intrinsic to your being, Arjuna; even against your will you must do what delusion now makes you refuse.

ZaehnerJesuit

(60) You are bound by your own works which spring from your own nature; [for] what, deluded, you would not do, you will do perforce.

GambhiranandaAdvaita

18.60 Being bound by your own duty born of nature, O son of Kuntī, you, being helpless, will verily do that which you do not wish to do owing to indiscrimination.

AdidevanandaVishishtadvaita

18.60 O Arjuna, bound by your own duty born out of your own inner disposition, and having no control over your own will, you will be compelled to do that very thing which you now desire not to do through delusion.

SivanandaVedanta

18.60 O Arjuna, bound by thy own Karma (action) born of thy own nature, that which from delusion thou wishest not to do, even that thou shalt do helplessly.

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Verse 59
Chapter 18
Verse 60 of 78
Verse 61