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Bhagavad Gita 18.59

यदहङ्कारमाश्रित्य न योत्स्य इति मन्यसे।मिथ्यैष व्यवसायस्ते प्रकृतिस्त्वां नियोक्ष्यति॥

yadahaṅkāramāśritya na yotsya iti manyase |mithyaiṣa vyavasāyaste prakṛtistvāṃ niyokṣyati ||

If, filled with egoism, thou thinkest, "I will not fight," then thy resolve is vain; nature will compel thee.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

If you in your vanity think of avoiding this fight, your will shall not be fulfilled, for Nature herself will compel you.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 18.59 · SatsangVidya