Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]All actions are everywhere being done by the qualities of nature. He who is deluded by the ego thinks: 'I am the doer.'
BG 3.27
प्रकृतेः क्रियमाणानि गुणैः कर्माणि सर्वशः । अहङ्कारविमूढात्मा कर्ताहमिति मन्यते ॥
prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ | ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate ||
"All actions are done by the gunas of nature. The ego-deluded one thinks 'I am the doer' — this is the root of bondage."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]All actions are performed by the gunas of Prakriti. He whose mind is deluded by egoism thinks: 'I am the doer.'
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]All actions are performed by the qualities of nature. He whose mind is deluded by the ego thinks 'I am the doer.'
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]The bonds of Nature work All action, but the fool, deluded, thinks He is the worker.
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]All actions are performed by the qualities of nature. He whose mind is deluded by egoism believes 'I am the doer.'