स्वभावजेन कौन्तेय निबद्धः स्वेन कर्मणा।कर्तुं नेच्छसि यन्मोहात्करिष्यस्यवशोऽपि तत्॥
swbhāva-jena kaunteya nibaddhaḥ svena karmaṇākartuṃ necchasi yan mohāt kariṣyasy avaśo ’pi tat
Word by word
The verse says
Bound by your own work, Arjuna, which comes out of your own nature, you will end up doing helplessly the very thing you do not want to do now, out of confusion.
In plain words
The same point, pressed harder, and it is not a comforting thought.
You will do it anyway. Not because you chose to. Because of what you already are.
The word avaśa means without will, helplessly. Krishna is describing the least free version of the same action, and he is describing it to persuade Arjuna to choose it freely instead.
Where you've felt this · with money
Rohit swore he would never go into the family trade. He spent his twenties doing other things. He was back in the shop at thirty-four, telling everyone it was temporary. It was not temporary. The only difference between him and his father at that age is that his father was not embarrassed about it.
Going deeper
The argument here is not that you have no choice, but that you have less choice than you think about what and more than you think about how.
What Arjuna will end up doing is treated as largely settled by what he already is. That is a claim about momentum rather than fate: a nature formed over decades does not get overridden by a decision taken this morning.
What remains open is the manner. He can do it helplessly, dragged, telling himself a story about why he had no option. Or he can do the same thing having seen it clearly and chosen it. The act is identical and the two lives are not.
That is a usable distinction, because almost everyone is already doing several things they did not exactly choose. The question those things put is not whether to escape them, which is often not available, but whether you are going to keep doing them as a hostage.