# Bhagavad Gita 3.36

**Canonical reference:** `gita.3.36`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अर्जुन उवाच।
अथ केन प्रयुक्तोऽयं पापं चरति पूरुषः।
अनिच्छन्नपि वार्ष्णेय बलादिव नियोजितः ॥

## IAST

arjuna uvāca
atha kena prayukto.ayaṃ pāpaṃ carati pūruṣaḥ
anicchannapi vārṣṇeya balādiva niyojitaḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

But by whom, O descendant of Vṛṣṇi! is man impelled, even though unwilling, and, as it were, constrained by force, to commit sin? The Deity said:

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