Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 - Karma Yoga - Sloka 36

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

The origin of sin - 36-43

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 3 -Karma Yaoga - Sloka 36

Serthi-Kanchipuram

Arjuna Uvacha

Atha kena prayuktah ayam papam charati purushah I

Anichchan api varshneya balat iva niyojitah II sloka 36

अर्जुन उवाच

अथ केन प्रयुक्तः अयं पापं चरति पुरुषः।

अनिच्छन अपि वार्ष्णेय बलात् इव नियोजितः ।। श्लोक ३६ 

Arjuna said,

But dragged on by what does a man commit sin, unwillingly though, O Varshneya, constrained as it were by force?

Sri Krishna is here addressed as Varshneya because of his coming of the Vrishni race.

In Chapter 2 slokas 62 & 63 the root cause of all evils has been unmistakably pointed out. Yet Arjuna raises that question again here for further elucidation.