Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

kinsmen (1.37), relatives (1.34) and friends, have
been shown by him with the words, 'How can I
(fight)...in battle (against) Bhisma' (4), etc. It is
verily because his discriminating insight was
overwhelmed by sorrow and delusion that, even
though he had become engaged in battle out of his
own accord as a duty of the Ksatriyas, he desisted
from that war and chose to undertake other's
duties like living on alms etc. It is thus that in the
case of all creatures whose minds come under the
sway of the defects of sorrow, delusion, etc. there
verily follows, as a matter of course, abandoning
their own duties and resorting to prohibited ones.
Even when they engage in their own duties their
actions with speech, mind, body, etc., are certainly
motivated by hankering for rewards, and are
accompanied by egoism. [Egoism consists in
thinking that one is the agent of some work and the
enjoyer of its reward.] Such being the case, the
cycle of births and deaths -- characterized by
passing through desireable and undesirable births,
and meeting with happiness, sorrow, etc. [From
virtuous deeds follow attainment of heaven and
happiness. From unvirtuous, sinful deeds follow
births as beasts and other lowly beings, and
sorrow. From the performance of both virtuous
and sinful deeds follows birth as a human being,
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