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Desire flames to fierce passion, passion breeds
KrishnaBhagavad Gita · Chapter 2
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Karma Yoga
Path of Action · Chapter 2 of 18
Krishna has described the person of steady wisdom (sthitaprajna). Now he shows the reverse — how an undisciplined mind cascades from a single sensory thought into total ruin: thought → attachment → desire → anger → delusion → memory loss → reason destroyed → the person is lost.
Why This Matters
The Gita’s most precise psychological analysis: a step-by-step chain from contemplation to desire to anger to delusion to destruction. A warning about how attachment unravels the self.
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Bhishma on the Bed of Arrows
Mughal court painter (Razmnama workshop), 1598 · Public Domain