लुप्तायां तु प्रकृतौ येन कर्म निष्पादयेत्तत्परीप्सेद्विहीनः । प्रकृतिस्थश्चापदि वर्तमान उभौ गर्ह्यौ भवतः संजयैतौ॥५-२८-४॥
But when one’s normal condition is disrupted, whatever means one employs to accomplish an act—though deficient—one seeks that. Yet one who, acting amid crisis, remains rigidly fixed in ordinary norms: both of these, O Sañjaya, become blameworthy.
english translation
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