Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 120

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-3 Karma Yogaḥ

indriyāṇi mano buddhir-asyādhiṣṭhānam-ucyate | etair-vimohayaty-eṣa jñānam-āvṛtya dehinam || 40 || 40. The senses, the mind and the intellect are said to be its accessories. By these it [desire] deludes the embodied Self by concealing its wisdom. Commentary By means of the senses, the mind and the intellect, which have been reduced to the position of servants through attachment to sense objects, desire deludes the embodied Self caught up in Material Nature by obscuring it’s comprehension. Desire deludes one through manifold illusions, by turning one away from the awareness of the true nature of the ātman and making one indulge in sense gratification.