Bhagavad Gita
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Verse 35
Chapter 3
Verse 36 of 43
Verse 37
Verse 3.36
अर्जुन उवाच अथ केन प्रयुक्तोऽयं पापं चरति पूरुषः। अनिच्छन्नपि वाष्र्णेय बलादिव नियोजितः ॥3.36॥
3.36 arjuna uvāca atha kena prayukto ‘yaṃ pāpaṃ carati pūruṣaḥ anicchann api vārṣṇeya balād iva niyojitaḥ
Translations
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BradOriginal Translation

Arjuna said: But impelled by what does this person commit sin (pāpa), Even unwillingly, O descendant of Vrishni (Vārṣṇeya), as if driven by force?

Stoller MillerLiterary

Krishna, what makes a person commit evil against his own will, as if compelled by force?

ZaehnerJesuit

Arjuna said: (36) Then by what impelled does [mortal] man do evil 'unwilling though he be? He is driven to it by force, or so it seems to me.

GambhiranandaAdvaita

3.36 Arjuna said -- Now then, O scion of the Vṛṣṇī dynasty (Kṛṣṇa), impelled by what does this man commit sin even against his wish, being constrained by force, as it were?

AdidevanandaVishishtadvaita

3.36 Arjuna said -- But, impelled by what, O Kṛṣṇa, does one (practicing Jñāna Yoga), commit sin even against his own will, constrained as it were, by force?

SivanandaVedanta

3.36 Arjuna said -- But impelled by what does man commit sin, though against his wishes, O Vārṣṇeya (Kṛṣṇa), constrained as it were, by force?

Commentaries

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Verse 35
Chapter 3
Verse 36 of 43
Verse 37