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सदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि।

प्रकृतिं यान्ति भूतानि निग्रहः किं करिष्यति।।3.33।।

 

Sanskrit Commentary By Sri Shankaracharya

।।3.33।। सदृशम् अनुरूपं चेष्टते चेष्टां करोति। कस्य स्वस्याः स्वकीयायाः प्रकृतेः। प्रकृतिर्नाम पूर्वकृतधर्माधर्मादिसंस्कारः वर्तमानजन्मादौ अभिव्यक्तः सा प्रकृतिः। तस्याः सदृशमेव सर्वो जन्तुः ज्ञानवानपि चेष्टते किं पुनर्मूर्खः। तस्मात् प्रकृतिं यान्ति अनुगच्छन्ति भूतानि प्राणिनः। निग्रहः निषेधरूपः किं करिष्यति मम वा अन्यस्य वा।।यदि सर्वो जन्तुः आत्मनः प्रकृतिसदृशमेव चेष्टते न च प्रकृतिशून्यः कश्चित् अस्ति ततः पुरुषकारस्य विषयानुपपत्तेः शास्त्रानर्थक्यप्राप्तौ इदमुच्यते

English Translation By Swami Gambirananda

3.33 Even a man of wisdom behaves according to his own nature. Being follow (their) nature. What can restraint do?

English Translation Of Sri Shankaracharya's Sanskrit Commentary By Swami Gambirananda

3.33 Api, even; jnanavan, a man of wisdom-what to speak of a fool!; cestate, behaves; Sadrsam, according to;-what? svasyah, his own; prakrteh, nature. Nature means the impressions of virtue, vice, etc. [Also, knowledge, desires, and so on.] acired in the past (lives) and which become manifest at the commencement of the present life. All creatures (behave) according to that only. Therefore, bhutani, beings; yanti, follow; (their) prakrtim, nature. Nigrahah kim karisyati, what can restraint do, be it from Me or anybody else? If all beings behave only according to their own nature-and there is none without his nature-, then, since there arises the contingency of the scriptures becoming purposeless owing to the absence of any scope for personal effort, therefore the following is being stated: