BG 3.40
Bhagavad Gītā · Karma YogaupagItiइन्द्रियाणि मनो बुद्धिरस्याधिष्ठानमुच्यते | एतैर्विमोहयत्येष ज्ञानमावृत्य देहिनम् ||३-४०||
indriyāṇi mano buddhirasyādhiṣṭhānamucyate . etairvimohayatyeṣa jñānamāvṛtya dehinam ||3-40||
Linguistic facts
upagIti · 16+16 syllables
scansion (laghu/guru)
10 words analyzed
- इन्द्रियाणिindriyāṇi← इन्द्रियnominal · vocative plural neuter
- मनस्manas← मन्nominal · nominative singular masculine
- बुद्धिस्buddhis← बुध्nominal · nominative singular masculine
- अस्यasya← अnominal · genitive singular masculine
- अधिष्ठानम्adhiṣṭhānam← अधिष्ठाnominal · accusative singular masculine
- उच्यतेucyate← वच्verb · present third singular passive (√vac)
- एतैर्विमोहयत्येषetairvimohayatyeṣaunknown
- ज्ञानम्jñānam← ज्ञाnominal · accusative singular masculine
- आवृत्यāvṛtya← आवृindeclinable
- देहिनम्dehinam← दिह्nominal · accusative singular masculine
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Translations
3.40 The senses, the mind and the intellect are said to be its seat; through these it deludes the embodied by veiling his wisdom.
source ↗8 more attributed translations
The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust. Through them lust covers the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him.
3.40. It basis is said to be the sense-organs, the mind and the intellect. With these it deludes the embodied by concealing knowledge.
3.40 It works through the senses, the mind and the reason; and with their help destroys wisdom and confounds the soul.
3.40 Indriyani etc. In the beginning, it stands on the sense organs at work. For example, when an enemy is sighted with eyes, he generates wrath about himself at the very place of the perceiver's sense-organ, then in the mind i.e., fancy, then in the intellect, i.e., resolve; and producing delusion in this way, it destroys knowledge. [The Lord] speaks of the means for avoiding this foe as :
3.40 The senses, the mind and the intellect are the instruments of desire in so far as it overpowers the self through them. By means of these, viz., 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 soul caught up in Prakrti by covering up Its knowledge. Here 'deluding' means making the self a victim of manifold illusions, by turning It away from the knowledge of Its true nature, and making It indulge in sensuous experiences.
3.40 Indriyani, the organs; manah, mind; and buddhih, the intellect; ucyate, are said to be; asya, its, desire's; adhisthanam, abode. Esah, this one, desire; vimohayati, diversely deludes; dehinam, the embodied being; avrtya, by veiling; jnanam, Knowledg; etaih, with the help of these, with the organs etc. which are its abodes. [The activities of the organs etc. are the media for the expression of desire. Desire covers the Knoweldge of the Self by stimulating these.]
3.40 The senses, the mind and the intellect are said to be its instruments. By these it overpowers the embodied self after enveloping Its knowledge.
3.40 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.
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