[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [The Mahābhārata and its versions](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata) › [The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) › 6.25.37-43 # The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.25.37-43 Mahābhārata 6.25.37-43 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.25.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.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). > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.25.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.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. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.25.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.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. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.25.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.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. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.25.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.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. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.25.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.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). > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ### [6.25.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.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. > — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita ## Translations (2) - [Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-swarupananda.3.37) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English - [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.27.4) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.27.37) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (2) - [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.27.37) — Sanskrit - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.27.37) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (3) - [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.3.37) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.3.37) — Sanskrit - [Vivaraṇavaraṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.dvaita.tika.vivaranavarana.p21.3) — Vādirāja 1546, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.25.37-43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.25.37-43) · Pramāṇa