Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 3, Verse 36
अर्जुन उवाच । अथ केन प्रयुक्तोऽयं पापं चरति पूरुषः । अनिच्छन्नपि वार्ष्णेय बलादिव नियोजितः
arjuna uvāca | atha kena prayukto'yaṃ pāpaṃ carati pūruṣaḥ | anicchannapi vārṣṇeya balādiva niyojitaḥ
Translation
But by what dragged on, O Vārṣṇeya, does a man, though reluctant, commit sin, as if constrained by force?
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- atha
- now
- kena
- by what
- prayuktaḥ
- impelled
- ayam
- this
- pāpam
- sin
- carati
- does
- pūruṣaḥ
- man
- anicchan
- undesiring
- api
- even
- vārṣṇeya
- O Vārṣṇeya
- balāt
- by force
- iva
- as it were
- niyojitaḥ
- compelled
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Dragged on and constrained: as a servant by the king. Vārṣṇeya: one born in the family of the Vṛṣṇis.