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Desire and wrath: the enemies of the soul

TopicsĀtman & the SelfKāma & Krodha — Desire & AngerTeaching arc · Inner Enemies Identified

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श्रीभगवानुवाच:काम एष क्रोध एष रजोगुणसमुद्भवः ।महाशनो महापाप्मा विद्ध्येनमिह वैरिणम् ॥

The Blessed Lord said: This is desire and its companion wrath, children of rajas, all-devouring, all-polluting, know thou this as the soul’s great enemy (which has to be slain).

Gītā 3·37

From The Experiential Architecture · After Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita · incarnateword.in