Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 114

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Contents of the Gita Summarized
Chapter 2: Verse-62

dhyäyato visayan pumsah
sangas tesupajayate
sangat sanjäyate kämah
kämät krodho ’bhijäyate[1]

TRANSLATION

While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.

PURPORT

One who is notkrsnaconscious is subjected to material desires while contemplating the objects of the senses. The senses require real engagements, and if they are not engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, they will certainly seek engagement in the service of materialism. In the material world everyone, including Lord Çiva and Lord Brahmä—to say nothing of other demigods in the heavenly planets—is subjected to the influence of sense objects, and the only method to get out of this puzzle of material existence is to become krsna conscious. Lord Siva was deep in meditation, but when Pärvati agitated him for sense pleasure, he agreed to the proposal, and as a result Kärtikeya was born. When Haridäsa Thäkura was a young devotee of the Lord, he was similarly allured by the incarnation of Mäyä-devi, but Haridäsa easily passed the test because of his unalloyed devotion to Lord Krsna. As illustrated in the above-mentioned verse of Sri Yämunäcärya, a sincere devotee of the Lord shuns all material sense enjoyment due to his higher taste for spiritual enjoyment in the association of the Lord. That is the secret of success. One who is not, therefore, in krsna consciousness, however powerful he may be in controlling the senses by artificial repression, is sure ultimately to fail, for the slightest thought of sense pleasure will agitate him to gratify his desires.



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References

  1. dhyäyatah=while contemplating; visayan=sense objects; pumsah=of a person; sangah=attachment; tesu=in the sense objects; upajäyate=develops; sangat=from attachment; sanjäyate=evelops; kämah=desire; kämät=from desire; krodhah=anger; abhijäyate=becomes manifest.

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