TEXT 40

VERZ 40

Devanagari

इन्द्रियाणि मनो बुद्धिरस्याधिष्ठानमुच्यते ।
एतैर्विमोहयत्येष ज्ञानमावृत्य देहिनम् ॥ ४० ॥

Text

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indriyāṇi mano buddhir
asyādhiṣṭhānam ucyate
etair vimohayaty eṣa
jñānam āvṛtya dehinam

Synonyms

indriyāṇi — the senses; manaḥ — the mind; buddhiḥ — the intelligence; asya — of this lust; adhiṣṭhānam — sitting place; ucyate — is called; etaiḥ — by all these; vimohayati — bewilders; eṣaḥ — this lust; jñānam — knowledge; āvṛtya — covering; dehinam — of the embodied.

indriyāṇi – čuti; manaḥ – um; buddhiḥ – inteligenca; asya – tega poželenja; adhiṣṭhānam – sedež; ucyate – se imenuje; etaiḥ – s temi; vimohayati – zbega; eṣaḥ – to poželenje; jñānam – znanje; āvṛtya – prekrivši; dehinam – utelešenega.

Translation

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.

Čuti, um in inteligenca so sedež poželenja. Preko njih poželenje zbega živo bitje, saj prekrije njegovo pravo znanje.

Purport

The enemy has captured different strategic positions in the body of the conditioned soul, and therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa is giving hints of those places, so that one who wants to conquer the enemy may know where he can be found. Mind is the center of all the activities of the senses, and thus when we hear about sense objects the mind generally becomes a reservoir of all ideas of sense gratification; and, as a result, the mind and the senses become the repositories of lust. Next, the intelligence department becomes the capital of such lustful propensities. Intelligence is the immediate next-door neighbor of the spirit soul. Lusty intelligence influences the spirit soul to acquire the false ego and identify itself with matter, and thus with the mind and senses. The spirit soul becomes addicted to enjoying the material senses and mistakes this as true happiness. This false identification of the spirit soul is very nicely explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.84.13):

Sovražnik pogojene duše je zasedel različne strateške položaje v njenem telesu. Kṛṣṇa tukaj omenja ta mesta, da bodo tisti, ki želijo sovražnika premagati, vedeli, kje ga lahko najdejo. Um je središče vsega delovanja čutov, in kadar poslušamo o predmetih čutne zaznave, ponavadi postane zbiralnik idej o zadovoljevanju čutov. Um in čuti postanejo zato skladišča poželenja, inteligenca pa njegov glavni sedež. Inteligenca je najbližji sosed duše. Poželjiva inteligenca napelje dušo k temu, da sprejme lažni ego in se začne enačiti z materijo ter tako z umom in čuti. Duhovna duša postane zasvojena z materialnim čutnim uživanjem in zmotno misli, da je to prava sreča. O ljudeh, ki zmotno enačijo dušo s telesom, govori Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.84.13):

yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke
sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma ijya-dhīḥ
yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile na karhicij
janeṣv abhijñeṣu sa eva go-kharaḥ

“A human being who identifies this body made of three elements with his self, who considers the by-products of the body to be his kinsmen, who considers the land of birth worshipable, and who goes to the place of pilgrimage simply to take a bath rather than meet men of transcendental knowledge there is to be considered like an ass or a cow.”

„Človek, ki se enači s telesom, sestavljenim iz treh elementov, ki ima stranske produkte telesa za svoje sorodnike, ki misli, da je njegova domovina vredna oboževanja, in ki obiskuje romarska mesta samo zato, da bi se tam okopal, ne pa, da bi srečal ljudi s transcendentalnim znanjem, ni boljši od osla ali krave.“