Important verse of Srimad Bhagvadgita -2

Dhyayato visayan pumsah 

sangas tesupajayate 

sangat sanjayate kamah 

kamat krodho 'bhijayate....

krodhad bhavati sammohah 

sammohat smrti-vibhramah 

smrti-bhramsad buddhi-naso 

buddhi-nasat pranasyati.........2:62/63

विषयो  की चिंतन  करनेवाला पुरुष उन विश्योमे आसक्ति  हो जाती  है ,  आसक्तिसे उन विषयोंकी कामना उत्पन्न होजाती है और कामना  में विघ्न पढने से क्रोध उत्पन्न होता है , क्रोध से अत्यंत मूढ भाव उत्पन्न होजाता है ,मूढ़ भाव से स्मृति में भ्रम हो जाने से बुद्धि अर्थात ज्ञान शक्ती का नाश हो जाता है, और बुद्धि का नाश हो जाने से वह पुरुष अपनी स्तिथि से गिर जाता है।





While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool.




Lord Krishna states that one who contemplates sensual objects like form and touch develops in the mind attachment for them in the form of lust deluded into believing such objects to be the root cause of apparent happiness.

From this attachment springs desire which is but a modification of attachment. Sometimes one is able to gratify ones senses by enjoying these sense objects. At that time a particular state of mind arises where one becomes enslaved and controlled by the desire of the very same object one is seeking so desperately to exploit. Other times ones desires are thwarted and obstructed and unfulfilled in satisfying ones desire to experience sense objects leads to frustration which is also a modification of the mind. At this time anger is directed in fury towards whatever it was that became the obstacle that blocked ones gratification.  Lord Krishna further explains here that from anger arises delusion which is the lack of discrimination about knowing what actions to perform and what actions not to perform. From delusion comes confusion which is the 1)bewilderment of intelligence and 2)forgetfulness of the truth. 
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 From confusion comes illusion the misinterpretation of intellect in determining the true nature of reality. From illusion one becomes completely ruined. One loses focus on the goal of material existence and the purpose of human life and lives in the darkness of nescience. Thus it must be understood that controlling ones mind is essential.



Lord Krishna is explaining that one whose cravings for sensual objects linger, the effort to overcome the senses without focusing the mind on the Supreme Lord is futile. This is due to the fact that without the Supreme Lords grace the residue of past sensual activities and the pleasure or frustration derived therefrom will delude the mind to pursue sense objects. This debilitating effect creates a magnetic attraction where the desire for sense objects becomes more and more extreme. From this extreme desire springs kama lust. Lust is the next stage of desire. Lust is that which one feels when they thinks that they cannot exist without their desire being gratified. From lust springs krodha anger. Krodha is that frustrated outraged one feels against that which stands in the way of obtaining the gratification of ones senses. From krodha arises sammoha bewilderment and delusion which is the mental condition where one is no longer cognisant of what action should be performed and what action should not be performed. One will foolishly do anything in this condition. Thereafter comes dementia causing loss in memory of the process one began in order to constrain the senses and control the mind. From dementia comes loss of will power, one no longer has the drive and incentive to cultivate themselves towards obtaining spiritual realisation of the eternal soul. When this happens then one perishes their spiritual opportunity being drowned again and again in samsara the endless cycle of birth and death in the material existence.



Destruction of the intellect is the non-awareness of ones eternal connection to the omnipresent soul.