अथ केन प्रयुक्तोऽयं पापं चरति पूरुषः।अनिच्छन्नपि वार्ष्णेय बलादिव नियोजितः॥
atha kena prayukto ’yaṃ pāpaṃ carati pūruṣaḥanicchann api vārṣṇeya balād iva niyojitaḥ
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
Arjuna said: Then what makes a person do harm, Krishna, even when he does not want to? It is as if something pushes him into it.
सरल शब्दों में
The best question in the chapter, and everyone recognises it.
Not why do bad people do bad things. Why does someone do the thing he does not want to do?
And the phrasing is exact: balād iva niyojitaḥ — as if engaged by force. As if. He cannot find who is pushing.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
You hear the sentence leave your mouth and you were against it the whole time. Afterwards there is no one to blame that you can locate, and you were definitely there.
और गहराई में
Arjuna has asked the question the chapter has been circling since verse 27, and he has asked it from the inside.
Everything before this has been about action in general. This is about the experience of watching yourself do something while disagreeing with it. Anicchann api — not wanting to, even so.
That even so is what makes it a real question. If we simply did what we wanted, there would be nothing to explain. The puzzle is the gap between the wanting and the doing, and Arjuna has put his finger exactly on it.
It is also a question with his own situation underneath it. He has spent two chapters explaining why he will not fight, while being unable to leave the field.
Krishna's answer over the next seven verses is the most systematic psychology in the book, and it names one cause rather than many.