प्रकृतिं स्वामवष्टभ्य विसृजामि पुनः पुनः।भूतग्राममिमं कृत्स्नमवशं प्रकृतेर्वशात्॥
prakṛtiṃ svām avaṣṭabhya visṛjāmi punaḥ punaḥbhūta-grāmam imaṃ kṛtsnam avaśaṃ prakṛter vaśāt
Word by word
The verse says
Presiding over my own nature, I send out again and again this whole crowd of beings — helpless, under the force of nature.
In plain words
Avaśam — helpless, without a say. The same word the last chapter used.
The beings do not choose to be sent out. They are sent.
Krishna does not apologise for this and does not soften it. It sits in the middle of the line.
Where you've felt this · at work
Nobody on a factory floor decides when the shift starts. The hooter goes and four hundred people move the way they moved yesterday. Every one of them has private reasons for being there — a family, a loan, a plan. Not one of those reasons is what starts the machine.
Going deeper
Admitting how little of this was chosen is the honest part of the verse, and most readers feel it before they can say why.
You did not select the century, the family, the body, the temperament or the country. All of that arrived. The book says so plainly rather than pretending everybody starts level, and it keeps saying so — nature runs, and beings are carried.
Where freedom appears is narrower than we like, and also more usable. Not in the conditions, which came as they came. In what is done with them, which is the subject of the six chapters behind this one.
That is worth holding on to on a day when your situation feels entirely handed to you. The Gita agrees with you about that, and does not think it settles anything.