Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
60. Bound by your sense of duty born of your own nature, O Arjuna, you will carry out helplessly, what through delusion, you do not wish to do. If a person is bent upon swimming towards the West, when the current is flowing Eastwards, the current will surely drag him to the East. If the paddy seed were to say, that it will not grow into a paddy plant, will it be able to go against its own nature? In the same way, O wise Arjuna, as your innate nature belongs to the warrior’s tradition, how can you say that you will not rise to fight? Even if you say so, your nature will compel you to stand up and fight. O Arjuna, your warrior’s nature has bestowed upon you bravery, indomitable spirit, mindfulness and other qualities at the time of your birth. O Son of Pandu, this inborn nature will not allow you to sit quiet, without performing your duties, in conformity with the group of your inherent qualities (1286-1290). O Arjuna, since you are bound by these qualities appropriate for a warrior, you will not be able to go against your inborn nature. If, without taking into account your innate nature, you take it in your head not to fight, you will be forced to fight like a person who, placed in a chariot with hands and feet bound, travels far without walking. Did you not fight, when Uttara, the eldest son of Virata, began to flee from the battlefield? That warrior’s nature, which made you fight then, will compel you to fight now (1291-1295). You knocked down on the battlefield, eleven divisions of warriors alone; that Kshatriya nature of yours, will make you fight here too. O Arjuna, does a patient ever like illness or a poor man ever like poverty? Yet a powerful destiny, makes them suffer these. The same destiny acting according to the Will of God, will not allow you to do otherwise. That God abides in your heart.
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