- dhyāyato viṣayān puṁsaḥ
- saṅgas teṣūpajāyate
- saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ
- kāmāt krodho 'bhijāyate
- (BG 2.62)
Now, viṣayā . . . if we do not control our senses in that way, dovetail with the supreme will, then what will happen? Now, dhyāyato viṣayān. Because our mind is always engaged in either of these things—eating, sleeping and defending and mating, especially mating. So dhyāyato viṣayān . . . dhyāyato viṣayān puṁsaḥ, when we think of, even by thinking, the next stage is saṅgas teṣu upajāyate: we become attached to that. We become attached to that. Just like we are reading some sex novel. Now, sex novel, now there is thinking of that. So thinking, thinking—then I become attached to it. I want practically.
So dhyāyato viṣayān puṁsaḥ saṅgas teṣūpajāyate, saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ. And by attachment, then my lust becomes developed. Kāmāt krodho 'bhijāyate. And when my lust is not satisfied, then I become angry. One after another, it is coming. Krodhād bhavati saṁmohaḥ (BG 2.63). And when I am angry, then I, I mean, I am out of my control of the equilibrium of mind. Krodhād saṁmohaḥ, saṁmohe, saṁmohāt smṛti-vibhramaḥ.
Then, even when I have control of the equilibrium of mind . . . we have seen that two brothers quarreling, and it, it, I mean to say, rose to such an extent, the quarreling, that one brother killed his another brother. We have seen. Two brother quarreling—one brother was killed by one brother, and he was arrested, and he was ordered to be hanged.
Then his father appealed to the court that "My two sons . . . one is already lost. So this may . . . he may be spared of his life." This I have actually seen. So by the request of the father, he was sentenced to life, and his hanging was excused by the court. That I have seen. So just see. Krodha. One after another, it becomes so intensified that nothing is impossible. Nothing is impossible.
Then smṛti-vibhramaḥ. Smṛti-bhraṁśād buddhi-nāśaḥ (BG 2.63). Buddhi-nāśaḥ. Buddhi-nāśaḥ means he lost his intelligence. He forgot that "Whom I am going to kill." Buddhi-nāśaḥ. Buddhi-nāśaḥ. Buddhi-nāśāt praṇaśyati: "And as soon as one loses his intelligence, then he's gone to hell."
So these things are happening, and we are continuing our material life, life after life, and not only in human life, but in other forms of life. Should we not think that "We shall stop all this nonsense for good in this life"? Yes. Any sane man, any intelligent man, he should think like that, that "This opportunity, this nice form of human life with civilized . . . in civilized society, with developed consciousness, I must utilize this opportunity for my spiritual perfection so that I may not suffer life after life these material pangs." This is the determination.