तस्मात्त्वमिन्द्रियाण्यादौ नियम्य भरतर्षभ | पाप्मानं प्रजहि ह्येनं ज्ञानविज्ञाननाशनम् ||३-४१||
tasmāttvamindriyāṇyādau niyamya bharatarṣabha . pāpmānaṃ prajahi hyenaṃ jñānavijñānanāśanam ||3-41||
- tasmāt
- therefore
- tvam
- you
- indriyāṇi
- senses
- ādau
- in the beginning
- niyamya
- by regulating
- bharata-ṛṣabha
- O chief amongst the descendants of Bharata
- pāpmānam
- the great symbol of sin
- prajahi
- curb
- hi
- certainly
- enam
- this
- jñāna
- of knowledge
- vijñāna
- and scientific knowledge of the pure soul
- nāśanam
- the destroyer
Therefore, O Arjuna, best of the Bhāratas, in the very beginning curb this great symbol of sin [lust] by regulating the senses, and slay this destroyer of knowledge and self-realization.