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Attachment

3 verses from the Bhagavad Gita on attachment. Explore teachings across 2 chapters.

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Chapter 2 • Verse 62 →The Yoga of Knowledge
Dhyayato visayan pumsah sangas tesupajayate, sangat sanjayate kamah kamat krodho 'bhijayate

While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them. From attachment develops desire, and from desire arises anger.

  • •Thought leads to attachment
  • •Desire stems from attachment
  • •Anger arises from unfulfilled desire
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Chapter 2 • Verse 62 →The Yoga of Knowledge
Dhyayato vishayan pumsah sangas tesupajayate, sangat sanjayate kamah kamat krodho 'bhijayate

While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.

  • •How desire leads to anger
  • •The chain of mental degradation
  • •Importance of controlling thoughts
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Chapter 15 • Verse 5 →The Yoga of the Supreme Person
Nirmāna-mohā jita-saṅga-doṣhā adhyātma-nityā vinivṛitta-kāmāḥ, dvandvair vimuktāḥ sukha-duḥkha-sanjñair gachchhanty amūḍhāḥ padam avyayaṁ tat

Those free from pride and illusion, victorious over attachment, constantly dwelling in the self, with desires completely stilled, liberated from the dualities of pleasure and pain—the undeluded reach that eternal abode.

  • •Freedom from pride and illusion
  • •Victory over attachment
  • •Liberation from dualities
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