All Books | Shrimad Bhagavatam | Canto 11: General History |Chapter Twenty-Five: The Three Modes of Nature and Beyond

SB 11.25.17

विकुर्वन् क्रियया चाधीरनिवृत्तिश्च चेतसाम् ।
गात्रास्वास्थ्यं मनो भ्रान्तं रज एतैर्निशामय ॥ १७ ॥

vikurvan kriyayā cā-dhīr
anivṛttiś ca cetasām
gātrāsvāsthyaṁ mano bhrāntaṁ
raja etair niśāmaya

Synonyms

vikurvan — becoming distorted; kriyayā — by activity; ca — and; ā — even up to; dhīḥ — the intelligence; anivṛttiḥ — failure to stop; ca — and; cetasām — on the part of the conscious faculties of intelligence and the senses; gātra — of the working senses; asvāsthyam — unhealthy condition; manaḥ — the mind; bhrāntam — unsteady; rajaḥ — passion; etaiḥ — by these symptoms; niśāmaya — you should understand.

Translation

You should discern the mode of passion by its symptoms — the distortion of the intelligence because of too much activity, the inability of the perceiving senses to disentangle themselves from mundane objects, an unhealthy condition of the working physical organs, and the unsteady perplexity of the mind.

BACE: Aiming to Teach Vedic Culture All Over the Globe.

www.vedabace.com is explanation of Vedic knowledge with detail information which can be useful in daily spiritual practice and studies and research.

for further details please contact- info@vedabace.com