3.40 इन्द्रियाणि मनो बुद्धिरस्याधिष्ठानमुच्यते। एतैर्विमोहयत्येष ज्ञानमावृत्य देहिनम्
indriyāṇi mano buddhir
Word meanings
indriyāṇi—the senses;manaḥ—the mind;buddhiḥ—the intellect;asya—of this;adhiṣhṭhānam—dwelling place;uchyate—are said to be;etaiḥ—by these;vimohayati—deludes;eṣhaḥ—this;jñānam—knowledge;āvṛitya—clouds;dehinam—the embodied soul
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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It is said to be based on the sense-organs, the mind, and the intellect. With these, it deludes the embodied by concealing knowledge.
It works through the senses, the mind and the reason; and with their help destroys wisdom and confounds the soul.
The senses, the mind and the intellect are said to be its instruments. By these it overpowers the embodied self after enveloping Its knowledge.
The organs, mind, and the intellect are said to be its abode. This one diversely deludes the embodied being by veiling Knowledge with the help of these.
The senses, mind and intellect are said to be its seat; through these it deludes the embodied by veiling his wisdom.
3.42 इन्द्रियाणि पराण्याहुरिन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनः। मनसस्तु परा बुद्धिर्यो बुद्धेः परतस्तु सः
indriyāṇi parāṇy
Word meanings
indriyāṇi—senses;parāṇi—superior;āhuḥ—are said;indriyebhyaḥ—than the senses;param—superior;manaḥ—the mind;manasaḥ—than the mind;tu—but;parā—superior;buddhiḥ—intellect;yaḥ—who;buddheḥ—than the intellect;parataḥ—more superior;tu—but;saḥ—that (soul)
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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It is said that the sense-organs are different from their objects; the mind is different from the sense-organs; the intellect is different from the mind; and That (Self) is different from the intellect.
It is said that the senses are powerful. But beyond the senses is the mind, beyond the mind is the intellect, and beyond and greater than intellect is He.
The senses are high, they say: the mind is higher than the senses; the intellect is higher than the mind; but what is greater than intellect is that (desire).
They say that the organs are superior (to the gross body); the mind is superior to the organs; but the intellect is superior to the mind. However, the one who is superior to the intellect is He.
They say that the senses are superior (to the body); superior to the senses is the mind; superior to the mind is the intellect; and one who is superior even to the intellect is He–the Self.
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Chapter 3: Karma Yoga
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3.41 तस्मात्त्वमिन्द्रियाण्यादौ नियम्य भरतर्षभ। पाप्मानं प्रजहि ह्येनं ज्ञानविज्ञाननाशनम्
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Word meanings
tasmāt—therefore;tvam—you;indriyāṇi—senses;ādau—in the very beginning;niyamya—having controlled;bharata-ṛiṣhabha—Arjun, the best of the Bharatas;pāpmānam—the sinful;prajahi—slay;hi—certainly;enam—this;jñāna—knowledge;vijñāna—realization;nāśhanam—the destroyer
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Therefore, O best among the Bharatas, you must avoid this sinful one, destroying knowledge and action, by controlling completely the sense-organs in the beginning itself.
Therefore, O Arjuna, first control thy senses and then slay desire, for it is full of sin, and is the destroyer of knowledge and of wisdom.
Therefore, O Arjuna, controlling the senses in the very beginning, slay this sinful thing that destroys both knowledge and discrimination.
Therefore, O scion of the Bharata dynasty, after first controlling the organs, renounce this one [A variant reading is, 'prajahi hi-enam, completely renounce this one'.-Tr.] which is sinful and a destroyer of learning and wisdom.
Therefore, O best of the Bharatas (Arjuna), controlling the senses first, do thou kill this sinful thing (desire), the destroyer of knowledge and realisation!
