3.40
Chapter 3, Verse 40
इन्द्रियाणि मनो बुद्धिरस्याधिष्ठानमुच्यते। एतैर्विमोहयत्येष ज्ञानमावृत्य देहिनम्৷৷
indriyāṇi manō buddhirasyādhiṣṭhānamucyatē. ētairvimōhayatyēṣa jñānamāvṛtya dēhinam৷৷
Translation
It works through the senses, the mind and the reason; and with their help destroys wisdom and confounds the soul.
Translation — Purohit Swami
Commentary
इन्द्रियाणि the senses, मनः the mind, बुद्धिः the intellect, अस्य its, अधिष्ठानम् seat, उच्यते is called, एतैः by these, विमोहयति deludes, एषः this, ज्ञानम् wisdom, आवृत्य having enveloped, देहिनम् the embodied. Commentary: If the abode of the enemy is known it is ite easy to kill him. So Lord Krishna like a wise army general points out to Arjuna the abode of desire so that he may be able to attack it and kill it ite readily.
Commentary — Swami Sivananda
Sanskrit and transliteration of the Bhagavad Gita. Corpus compiled from the vedabase and the IIT Kanpur Gita Supersite.