3. Selfless Service

Karm Yog

BG 3.41

Therefore, first control your senses and then slay this sinful thing which destroys knowledge and insight.

तस्मात्त्वमिन्द्रियाण्यादौ नियम्य भरतर्षभ
पाप्मानं प्रजहि ह्येनं ज्ञानविज्ञाननाशनम्

  • tasmāt — therefore

  • tvam — you

  • indriyāṇyādau — beginning of senses

    • indriyāṇi — senses

    • ādau — the beginning

  • niyamya — having controlled

  • bharatarṣhabha — Arjuna
    bharata-ṛiṣhabha—Arjun, the best of the Bharatas

  • pāpmānaṁ — the sinful

  • prajahi — slay

  • hyenaṁ — this certainly

  • jñāna-vijñāna-nāśhanam — destroyer of knowledge and realization

    • jñāna — knowledge

    • vijñāna — realization, insight

    • nāśhanam — destroyer

...3.36

Krishna said: It is desire and it is anger, born of passion. It consumes and corrupts all things. Know this to be the enemy here.

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As fire is shrouded in smoke, a mirror covered by dust, and a fetus enveloped by the womb, so too is the universe enveloped by desire.

[38]

Wisdom is concealed by desire - it is the enemy of the wise, insatiable like fire.

[39]

The senses, mind, and intellect are its instruments, by which it deludes the soul and conceals its wisdom.

[40]

Therefore, first control your senses and then slay this sinful thing which destroys knowledge and insight.

[41]

It is said that the senses are powerful, but beyond the senses is the mind. Beyond the mind is the intellect, and beyond the intellect is the supreme self.

[42]

Thus, knowing that which is higher than the intellect, and restraining the mind in Karma Yoga, slay this enemy who takes the form of desire - one who is difficult to overcome.

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Similar verses

Chapter 3, Verse 41