Sanskrit
स्वभावजेन कौन्तेय निबद्धः स्वेन कर्मणा । कर्तुं नेच्छसि यन्मोहात्करिष्यस्यवशोऽपि तत् ॥ ६० ॥
svabhāva-jena kaunteya nibaddhaḥ svena karmaṇā kartuṃ necchasi yan mohāt kariṣyasy avaśo'pi tat
Translation
O son of Kuntî, bound by thine own duty born of thine own nature, that which from delusion thou desirest not to do, even that helplessly thou shalt perform.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The dismantling continues: bound by his own nature-born duty, whatever Arjuna refuses out of delusion he will helplessly perform anyway. Krishna’s claim isn’t merely that fighting would be good for Arjuna, it’s that refusal was never really available to him — bound by svabhava-born karma, he will act as a Kshatriya whether or not his ego consents, a hard determinist note that sits deliberately, and uneasily, next to the freedom Krishna grants back explicitly just a few verses later at 63.