PATH OF KARMA-YOGA

Arjuna said: O Krishna, what impels one to commit sin as if unwillingly and forced against one's will? (3.36)

The Supreme Lord said: It is Kaama and anger born of Rajo Guna. Kaama is insatiable and is a great devil. Know this as the enemy. (3.37) 

Kaama, the passionate desire for all sensual and material pleasures, becomes anger if it is unfulfilled. As the are is covered by smoke, as a mirror by dust, and as an embryo by the amnion, similarly the Self-knowledge gets obscured by Kaama. (3.38) 

O Arjuna, Jnana gets covered by this insatiable are of Kaama, the eternal enemy of Jnani. (3.39)

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