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arjuna uvāca atha kena prayukto ‘yaḿ pāpaḿ carati pūruṣaḥ anicchann api vārṣṇeya balād iva niyojitaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.36 Arjuna said: O descendant of Vrishni, by what is one impelled to sinful acts,...

śrī-bhagavān uvāca kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ mahāśano mahā-pāpmā viddhy enam iha vairiṇam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.37 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of...

dhumenavriyate vahnir yathadarso malena ca yatholbenavr?to garbhas tatha tenedam avr?tam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.38 As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, the...

āvṛtaḿ jñānam etena jñānino nitya-vairiṇā kāma-rūpeṇa kaunteya duṣpūreṇānalena ca Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.39 Thus the wise living entity’s pure consciousness becomes covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust,...

indriyāṇi mano buddhir asyādhiṣṭhānam ucyate etair vimohayaty eṣa jñānam āvṛtya dehinam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.40 The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust. Through them lust...

tasmāt tvam indriyāṇy ādau niyamya bharatarṣabha pāpmānaḿ prajahi hy enaḿ jñāna-vijñāna-nāśanam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.41 Therefore, O Arjuna, best of the Bharatas, in the very beginning curb this great symbol of sin...

indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur indriyebhyaḥ paraḿ manaḥ manasas tu parā buddhir yo buddheḥ paratas tu saḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.42 The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses;...

evaḿ buddheḥ paraḿ buddhvā saḿstabhyātmānam ātmanā jahi śatruḿ mahā-bāho kāma-rūpaḿ durāsadam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.43 Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to the material senses, mind and intelligence, O...

śrī-bhagavān uvāca imaḿ vivasvate yogaḿ proktavān aham avyayam vivasvān manave prāha manur ikṣvākave ‘bravīt Translation of Bhagavad Gita 4.1 The Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, said: I instructed this...

evaḿ paramparā-prāptam imaḿ rājarṣayo viduḥ sa kāleneha mahatā yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa Translation of Bhagavad Gita 4.2 This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings...