Bhagavad Gita
    Chapter 2 · The Way of Knowledge

    Verse 60

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 2, Verse 60

    यततो ह्यपि कौन्तेय पुरुषस्य विपश्चितः। इन्द्रियाणि प्रमाथीनि हरन्ति प्रसभं मनः।।2.60।।

    Transliteration (IAST)

    yatato hyapi kaunteya puruṣhasya vipaśhchitaḥ indriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaṁ manaḥ

    Translation

    The turbulent senses, O Arjuna, can forcibly carry away the mind of even a wise man, though he is ever striving.
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