My mind and nature, O Krishna, are naturally bent upon virtue; that vile trader of virtue, the worst of the virtuous, who wishes to reap the fruits of virtue, does never obtain them; nor does a vicious-minded person, for his scepticism, who doubts a virtuous act, having accomplished it.
धर्म एव मनः कृष्णे स्वभावाच्चैव मेधृतम्। धमवाणिज्यको हीनो जघन्योधर्मवादिनाम्॥ नधर्मफलमाप्नोति योधर्मं दोग्धुमिच्छति। यश्चैनं शङ्कते कृत्वा नास्तिक्यात् पापचेतनः॥