Chapter 3 verse 39-40
“Enveloped, O Son of Kunti, is ‘wisdom’
by this constant enemy of the wise in the form of ‘desire’, which is difficult
to appease, like fire. The senses, the mind and the intellect are said to be
its seat; through these, it deludes the embodied, by veiling his wisdom”
Continuing his explanation of the
veil of ignorance, the thick cloud envelope which prevents the inherently
divine being from realizing their divinity is ‘desire’. Krishna uses another
fire analogy but this time he talks about the insatiable hunger to burn
everything. Desire is likened to unbridled fire which takes everything down in
its stride and destroys. Desire is that fire in all of us which could kill our
ability to realize eternal happiness. How do we control this fire and direct it
to burn desire itself? The only way to burn desires is to kill thoughts-at one
stroke mind, Intellect and senses are detached if one gets to the root of
thought and see where it arose and contemplate on that origin which is the
Self.
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