These worlds would be destroyed if I were not to perform action (karma). And I would be the maker of mixing (saṅkara), and I would destroy these creatures.
These worlds would collapse if I did not perform action; I would create disorder in society, living beings would be destroyed.
(24) If I were not to do my work, these worlds would fall to ruin, and I should be a worker of confusion, destroying these [my] creatures.
3.24 These worlds will be ruined if I do not perform action. And I shall become the agent of intermingling (of castes), and shall be destroying these beings.
3.24 If I do not do work, these men would be lost; and I will be causing chaos in life and thereby ruining all these people.
3.24 These worlds would perish if I did not perform action; I should be the author of confusion of castes and destruction of these beings.