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Chapter 3. Karma-yoga TEXT 36

arjuna uvaca atha kena prayukto 'yam papam carati purusah
anicchann api varsneya balad iva niyojitah

TRANSLATION

Arjuna said: O descendant of Vrsni, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force?

Chapter 3. Karma-yoga TEXT 37

sri-bhagavan uvaca kama esa krodha esa rajo-guna-samudbhavah
mahasano maha-papma viddhy enam iha vairinam

TRANSLATION

The Blessed Lord said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material modes of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring, sinful enemy of this world.

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