Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 244

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-7 Adhyātma Yogaḥ

kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ prapadyante’nya-devatāḥ | taṃ taṃ niyamam āsthāya prakṛtyā niyatāḥ svayā || 20 || 20. Controlled by their inherent nature, and deprived of insight by various desires, the worldlyminded resort to other gods, observing various disciplines. Commentary Everyone is conditioned by their own nature which is comprised of the psychological tendencies (vāsanas) resulting from an involvement with material nature. Their insight into the Divine Nature is blurred by various desires (kāmas) which are conditioned by the subliminal activators (saṃskāras) created by their previous actions (karmas), in accordance with the three Gunas. In order to fulfill these various kinds of desires they take refuge in, that is, resort to and worship other deities who are regarded as different from Krishna, such as Indra and others, doing spiritual exercises which are meant to propitiate these deities.