Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]"The Lord creates neither the agency nor the actions of the world, nor the union of action with fruit. Nature operates by its own power."
BG 5.14
न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः। न कर्मफलसंयोगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते॥५-१४॥
na kartṛtvaṃ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ | na karma-phala-saṃyogaṃ svabhāvas tu pravartate || 5.14 ||
"The Lord creates neither doership, actions, nor fruit-unions for the world — svabhāva alone operates."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]"The Lord creates neither the sense of doership nor the actions of the people, nor the union of action with its fruit. It is nature that acts."
Annie Besant & Bhagavan Das, The Bhagavad Gītā (1905)
[5]"The ETERNAL originates neither the sense of doership nor the deeds of men, nor the union of deed and fruit; but nature interposeth itself."
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]"The supreme Lord of this universe createth not the acts or the actors, nor the union of acts with their results; it is nature that operateth in these things."
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]"The Lord of the World creates not men's works, nor their deeds, nor their joining deeds to fruits: these spring from Nature."
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]"The Lord does not create the doership or the actions of men, nor the association of actions with their fruit. It is nature that moves to action."