3.35 श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात्। स्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेयः परधर्मो भयावहः
śreyān
Word meanings
śhreyān—better;swa-dharmaḥ—personal duty;viguṇaḥ—tinged with faults;para-dharmāt—than another’s prescribed duties;su-anuṣhṭhitāt—perfectly done;swa-dharme—in one’s personal duties;nidhanam—death;śhreyaḥ—better;para-dharmaḥ—duties prescribed for others;bhaya-āvahaḥ—fraught with fear
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Better is one's own duty, even if it lacks merit, than the well-performed duty of another; it is better to suffer ruin in one's own duty than to gain success in another's.
It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
Better is one's own duty, though ill-done, than the duty of another well-performed. Better is death in one's own duty; the duty of another is fraught with fear.
One's own duty [Customary or scripturally ordained observances of different castes and sects.-Tr.], though defective, is superior to another's duty well-performed. Death is better while engaged in one's own duty; another's duty is fraught with fear.
Better is one’s own duty, though devoid of merit, than the duty of another well discharged. Better is death in one’s own duty; the duty of another is fraught with fear.
श्रीभगवानुवाच
3.37 काम एष क्रोध एष रजोगुणसमुद्भवः। महाशनो महापाप्मा विद्ध्येनमिह वैरिणम्
śrī bhagavān uvāca
kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo
Word meanings
kāmaḥ—desire;eṣhaḥ—this;krodhaḥ—wrath;eṣhaḥ—this;rajaḥ-guṇa—the mode of passion;samudbhavaḥ—born of;mahā-aśhanaḥ—all-devouring;mahā-pāpmā—greatly sinful;viddhi—know;enam—this;iha—in the material world;vairiṇam—the enemy
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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The Bhagavat said, "This desire, this wrath, born of the Rajas-strand, is a swallower of festivity and a mighty bestower of sins. Know this to be the enemy here."
Lord Shri Krishna: It is desire, it is aversion, born of passion. Desire consumes and corrupts everything. It is man's greatest enemy.
The Lord said It is desire, it is wrath, born of the Guna of Rajas; it is a great devourer, an impeller to sin. Know this to be the foe here.
The Blessed Lord said This desire, this anger, born of the quality of rajas, is a great devourer, a great sinner. Know this to be the enemy here.
It is desire, it is anger born of the quality of Rajas, all-sinful and all-devouring; know this as the foe here (in this world).
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कर्मयोग
Chapter 3: Karma Yoga
karmayoga
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अर्जुन उवाच
3.36 अथ केन प्रयुक्तोऽयं पापं चरति पूरुषः। अनिच्छन्नपि वार्ष्णेय बलादिव नियोजितः
arjuna uvāca
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Word meanings
atha—then;kena—by what;prayuktaḥ—impelled;ayam—one;pāpam—sins;charati—commit;pūruṣhaḥ—a person;anichchhan—unwillingly;api—even;vārṣhṇeya—he who belongs to the Vrishni clan, Shree Krishna;balāt—by force;iva—as if;niyojitaḥ—engaged
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Arjuna said, "Then, what induces this person of the world to commit sin, even though they do not desire it, as if they are being overpowered by a force?"
Arjuna asked: My Lord! Tell me, what is it that drives a man to sin, even against his will and as if by compulsion?
Arjuna said But, impelled by what, O Krsna, does one (practising Jnana Yoga), commit sin even against his own will, constrained as it were, by force?
Arjuna said Now then, O scion of the Vrsni dynasty (Krsna), impelled by what does this man commit sin even against his wish, being constrained by force, as it were?
But impelled by what does man commit sin, though against his wishes, O Varshneya (Krishna), constrained, as it were, by force?
