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TEXT 40 indriyani mano buddhir
SYNONYMS  indriyani--the
senses; manah--the mind; buddhih--the intelligence; asya--of
the lust; adhisthanam--sitting place; ucyate--called; etaih--by
all these; vimohayati--bewilders; esah--of this; jnanam--knowledge;
avrtya--covering;
dehinam--the embodied.
TRANSLATION The senses,
the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust, which
veils the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him.
PURPORT The enemy has
captured different strategic positions in the body of the conditioned soul,
and therefore Lord Krsna is giving hints of those places, so that one who
wants to conquer the enemy may know where he can be found. Mind is the
center of all the activities of the senses, and thus the mind is the reservoir
of all ideas of sense gratification; and, as a result, the mind and the
senses become the repositories of lust. Next, the intelligence department
becomes the capital of such lustful propensities. Intelligence is the immediate
next-door neighbor of the spirit soul. Lusty intelligence influences the
spirit soul to acquire the false ego and identify itself with matter, and
thus with the mind and senses. The spirit soul becomes addicted to enjoying
the material senses and mistakes this as true happiness. This false identification
of the spirit soul is very nicely explained in the Srimad-Bhagavatam
(10.84.13):
yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke
"A human being
who identifies this body made of three elements with his self, who considers
the by-products of the body to be his kinsmen, who considers the land of
birth as worshipable, and who goes to the place of pilgrimage simply to
take a bath rather than meet men of transcendental knowledge there, is
to be considered as an ass or a cow."
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