All these embodied creatures, it seems, take birth, exist, and renounce their bodies, of their own nature. Duty and its opposite, therefore, cannot be determined, O Bharata, by study of the scriptures alone.
इमानि हि प्राणयन्ति सृजन्त्युत्तारयन्ति च। न धर्मः परिपाठेन शक्यो भारत वेदितुम्॥