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Bhagavad Gita 3.33

सदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि।प्रकृतिं यान्ति भूतानि निग्रहः किं करिष्यति॥

sadṛśaṃ ceṣṭate svasyāḥ prakṛterjñānavānapi |prakṛtiṃ yānti bhūtāni nigrahaḥ kiṃ kariṣyati ||

Even a wise man acts in accordance with his own nature; beings will follow their nature; what can restraint do?

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

Even the wise man acts in accordance with his nature; indeed, all creatures act according to their natures. What is the use of compulsion then?

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.