इन्द्रियाणि मनो बुद्धिरस्याधिष्ठानमुच्यते | एतैर्विमोहयत्येष ज्ञानमावृत्य देहिनम् ||३-४०||
indriyāṇi mano buddhirasyādhiṣṭhānamucyate . etairvimohayatyeṣa jñānamāvṛtya dehinam ||3-40||
- indriyāṇi
- the senses
- manaḥ
- the mind
- buddhiḥ
- the intelligence
- asya
- of this lust
- adhiṣṭhānam
- sitting place
- ucyate
- is called
- etaiḥ
- by all these
- vimohayati
- bewilders
- eṣaḥ
- this lust
- jñānam
- knowledge
- āvṛtya
- covering
- dehinam
- of the embodied
The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust. Through them lust covers the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him.