BHAGAVAD-GITA 2:62

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 2:62

 

dhyayato visayan pumsah

sangas tesupajayate

sangat sanjayate kamah

kamat krodho 'bhijayate

WORD FOR WORD

 

dhyayatah--while contemplating; visayan--sense objects; pumsah--of a

person; sangah--attachment; tesu--in the sense objects;

upajayate--develops; sangat--from attachment; sanjayate--develops;

kamah--desire; kamat--from desire; krodhah--anger; abhijayate--becomes

manifest.

 

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 not Krsna conscious 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

Siva and Lord Brahma--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 Parvati

agitated him for sense pleasure, he agreed to the proposal, and as a

result Kartikeya was born. When Haridasa Thakura was a young devotee

of the Lord, he was similarly allured by the incarnation of Maya-devi,

but Haridasa easily passed the test because of his unalloyed devotion

to Lord Krsna. As illustrated in the above-mentioned verse of Sri

Yamunacarya, 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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