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Bhagavad-gitā  As It Is
[Ch. 18]
ties. One should note very carefully that one who is not active in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is losing himself in the material whirlpool, in the ocean of birth and death. No conditioned soul actually knows what is to be done and what is not to be done, but a person who acts in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is free to act because everything is prompted by Kṛṣṇa from within and confirmed by the spiritual master.
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यदहङ्कारमाश्रित्य न योत्स्य इति मन्यसे । मिध्यैष व्यवसायस्ते प्रकृतिस्त्वां नियोक्ष्यति ॥५९॥
yad ahankāram āśritya na yotsya iti manyase mithyaiṣa vyavasāyas te prakṛtis tvāṁ niyoksyati
yat —therefore;  ahankāram —false ego;  āśritya —taking shelter;  na —not;  yotsya —shall fight;  iti —thus;  manyase —think;  mithyā  eṣaḥ—this is all false;  vyavasāyah te —your determination;  prakṛtiḥ —material nature;  tvām —you;  niyokṣyati —will engage you.
TRANSLATION
If you do not act according to My direction and do not fight, then you will be falsely directed. By your nature, you will have to be engaged in warfare.
PURPORT
Arjuna was a military man, and born of the nature of the  kṣatriya . Therefore his natural duty was to fight. But, due to false ego, he was fearing that by killing his teacher, grandfather and friends, there would be sinful reactions. Actually he was considering himself master of his actions, as if he were directing the good and bad results of such work. He forgot that the Supreme Personality of Godhead was present there, instructing him to fight. That is the forgetfulness of the conditioned soul. The Supreme Personality gives directions as to what is good and what is bad, and one simply has to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness to attain the perfection of