The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.25.37-43
Mahābhārata 6.25.37-43
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6.25.37
śrībhagavānuvāca |
kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajoguṇasamudbhavaḥ |
mahāśano mahāpāpmā viddhyenamiha vairiṇam || 37 ||
The Blessed Lord said:
It is desire—it is anger, born of the Rajo-guna: of great craving, and of great sin; know this as the foe here (in this world).
6.25.38
dhūmenāvriyate vahniryathādarśo malena ca |
yatholbenāvṛto garbhastathā tenedamāvṛtam || 38 ||
As fire is enveloped by smoke, as a mirror by dust, as an embryo by the secundine, so is it covered by that.
6.25.39
āvṛtaṃ jñānametena jñānino nityavairiṇā |
kāmarūpeṇa kaunteya duṣpūreṇānalena ca || 39 ||
Knowledge is covered by this, the constant foe of the wise, O son of Kunti, the unappeasable fire of desire.
6.25.40
indriyāṇi mano buddhirasyādhiṣṭhānamucyate |
etairvimohayatyeṣa jñānamāvṛtya dehinam || 40 ||
The senses, the mind and the intellect are said to be its abode: through these, it deludes the embodied by veiling his wisdom.
6.25.41
tasmāttvamindriyāṇyādau niyamya bharatarṣabha |
pāpmānaṃ prajahihyenaṃ jñānavijñānanāśanam || 41 ||
Therefore, O Bull of the Bharata race, controlling the senses at the outset, kill it,—the sinful, the destroyer of knowledge and realisation.
6.25.42
indriyāṇi parāṇyāhurindriyebhyaḥ paraṃ manaḥ |
manasastu parā buddhiryo buddheḥ paratastu saḥ || 42 ||
The senses are said to be superior (to the body); the mind is superior to the senses; the intellect is superior to the mind; and that which is superior to the intellect is He (the Atman).
6.25.43
evaṃ buddheḥ paraṃ buddhvā saṃstabhyātmānamātmanā |
jahi śatruṃ mahābāho kāmarūpaṃ durāsadam || 43 ||
Thus, knowing Him who is superior to the intellect, and restraining the self by the Self, destroy, O mighty-armed, that enemy, the unseizable foe, desire.
The end of the third chapter, designated The Way of Action.
Translations (2)
- Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English
- The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English
Commentaries (1)
- Bhāratabhāvadīpa — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit
Other recensions (2)
- Southern recension — Sanskrit
- Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text) — Sanskrit
Linked texts (3)
- Bhagavadgītā — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Vulgate (700 verses) — Sanskrit
- Vivaraṇavaraṇa — Vādirāja 1546, Sanskrit