स्वभावो दुस्त्यजो नाथ लोकानां यदसद्ग्रह: ॥
svabhāvo dustyajo nātha lokānāṁ yad asad-grahaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.16.56)
“O Lord, people’s svabhāva (nature), which is that of clinging to the unreal [alt., to evil], is difficult to give up.”
Alternate translation:
“O Lord, people’s svabhāva (nature), because of which clinging to the unreal [alt., to evil] occurs, is difficult to give up.”
Commentary
yad yasmāt svabhāvād asato rāgadveṣāder graho viduṣām api bhavati kā kathā asmākaṁ mūḍhānām iti bhāvaḥ |
(Vaiṣṇavānandinī-ṭīkā)
“ … Because of which svabhāva (nature) clinging to the unreal, beginning with attachment and aversion (rāga, dveṣa), occurs even in the case of the learned, what to speak of fools such as us. This is the purport.”