Authenticity

Karmendriyani samyamya ya aste manasa smaran, indriyarthan vimudhatma mithyacarah sa ucyate

One who restrains the organs of action but mentally dwells on sense objects is a hypocrite and is called a false renunciant. True renunciation requires inner detachment, not merely outward restraint.

Sadrsham ceshtate svasyah prakritir jnanavaan api, prakritiim yaanti bhutani nigrahah kim karishyati

Even a person of knowledge acts according to their own nature. All beings follow their nature — what will repression achieve? One cannot go against one's deep nature; transformation, not suppression, is the path.

Shreyan sva-dharmo vigunah para-dharmat sv-anushthitat, sva-dharme nidhanam shreyah para-dharmo bhayavahah

It is far better to discharge one's prescribed duties, even though faultily, than another's duties perfectly. Better to die performing one's own duty than adopt another's, for that is dangerous.

sreyan sva-dharmo vigunah para-dharmat sv-anusthitat sva-bhava-niyatam karma kurvan napnoti kilbisam

Better is one's own duty, though imperfectly performed, than the duty of another well performed. By performing duty ordained by one's own nature, one does not incur sin. This echoes the teaching of chapter three on the primacy of svadharma.