Every sense has its affections and aversions towards its-objects fixed. One should not become subject to them, for they are one's opponents. One's own duty, though defective, is better than another's duty well performed. Death in (performing) one's own duty is preferable ; the (performance of the) duty of others is dangerous. Arguna said: But by whom, O descendant of Vrishni! is man impelled, even though unwilling and, as it were, constrained by force, to commit sin?