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The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

DISCOURCE 3 40. The senses, the mind and the reason are said to be its great seat; by means of these it obscures knowledge and stupefies man. When Lust seizes the senses, the mind is corrupted, discrimination is obscured and reason ruined. See II. 62-64. 41. Therefore, O Bharatarshabha, bridle thou first the senses and then rid thyself of this sinner, the destroyer of knowledge and discrimination. 42. Subtle, they say, are the senses; subtler than the senses is the mind; subtler than the mind is the reason; but subtler even than the reason is He. 43. Thus realizing Him to be subtler than the reason, and controlling the self by the Self (Atman), destroy, O Mahabahu, this enemy—Lust, so hard to overcome.