svabhāva-jena kaunteya nibaddhaḥ svena karmaṇā kartuṁ necchasi yan mohāt kariṣyasy avaśo ’pi tat
WORD BY WORD — PALAVRA POR PALAVRA
svabhāva-jena
born of your own nature
kaunteya
O son of Kuntī
nibaddhaḥ
conditioned
svena
by your own
karmaṇā
activities
kartum
to do
na
not
icchasi
you like
yat
that which
mohāt
by illusion
kariṣyasi
you will do
avaśaḥ
involuntarily
api
even
tat
that
TRANSLATION — TRADUÇÃO
Under illusion you are now declining to act according to My direction. But, compelled by the work born of your own nature, you will act all the same, O son of Kuntī.
PURPORT — SIGNIFICADO
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.
