Chapter 18 · Verse 59·Spoken by Krishna
यदहङ्कारमाश्रित्य न योत्स्य इति मन्यसे।मिथ्यैष व्यवसायस्ते प्रकृतिस्त्वां नियोक्ष्यति
yad ahankāram āśhritya na yotsya iti manyase mithyaiṣha vyavasāyas te prakṛitis tvāṁ niyokṣhyati
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Sanskrit recitation by Swami Brahmānanda
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Though you think 'I shall not fight', relying on egotism, this determination of yours is vain. Your nature will impel you!
Swami Gambiranandaafter Śaṅkara's bhāṣya· paired with Śaṅkara
If, in your self-conceit, you think, 'I will not fight,' your resolve is futile. Nature will compel you.
Swami Adidevanandaafter Rāmānuja's bhāṣya· paired with Rāmānuja
In case, holding fast to the sense of ego, you think, 'I shall not fight,' that resolve of yours will be useless. Your own natural condition will incite you to fight.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayanafter Madhva's bhāṣya· paired with Madhva
If, filled with egoism, thou thinkest, "I will not fight," then thy resolve is vain; nature will compel thee.
Swami SivanandaThe Bhagavad Gita
If you in your vanity think of avoiding this fight, your will shall not be fulfilled, for Nature herself will compel you.
Shri Purohit SwamiThe Geeta
This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.
If, taking refuge in egotism, you think, you settle the conviction, 'I will not fight', this resolve of yours is in vain, since your own nature, the nature of a kshatriya, will compel you.
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.
If, having resorted to egotism, to the conceit of independence in the knowledge of one's own good and ill, and disregarding My direction, you think 'I will not fight', this resolve of yours toward independence will turn out false. For nature will set you to the battle; nature will set you, the ignorant one, distraught of mind at the thought of My independence, to it. He establishes this.
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.
This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.
Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.
Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.