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avaśhaḥ

  • helpless
  • helplessly

In 4 verses

Chapter 1 4 of 18 chapters Chapter 18
  1. 3.5

    न हि कश्िचत्क्षणमपि जातु तिष्ठत्यकर्मकृत्

    avaśhaḥ — helpless

    No one can stay for even a moment without acting. Everyone is made to act by the strands of nature, whether they will it or not.

  2. 6.44

    पूर्वाभ्यासेन तेनैव ह्रियते ह्यवशोऽपि सः

    avaśhaḥ — helplessly

    Carried by that earlier practice, such a person is drawn on even without willing it. And even one who merely wishes to know of yoga goes beyond the letter of the scriptures.

  3. 8.19

    भूतग्रामः स एवायं भूत्वा भूत्वा प्रलीयते

    avaśhaḥ — helpless

    This same multitude of beings comes into being again and again, and again and again dissolves, helplessly, at the coming of night.

  4. 18.60

    स्वभावजेन कौन्तेय निबद्धः स्वेन कर्मणा

    avaśhaḥ — helplessly

    Bound by your own nature and by the work born of it, son of Kunti, you will do the very thing you do not wish to do, unwillingly.