Chapter 2: Sāṅkhya-yoga: – Yoga of Contemplation on SelfVerse 63
क्रोधाद्भवति संमोह: संमोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रम: ।
स्मृतिभ्रंशाद्बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति ॥
English Transliteration
krodhād-bhavati sammoha:
sammohāt-smṛti-vibhrama:
smṛti-bhraṃśād-buddhi-nāśo
buddhi-nāśāt-praṇaśyati – 2.63
Translation
From anger springs forth strong delusion, from which arises forgetfulness about oneself, which leads to loss of discrimination. Thence follows total destruction.
Chanting Audio
Chapter 2: Sāṅkhya-yoga: – Yoga of Contemplation on Self - Verse 63
Ma Gurupriya
Commentary
Anger is blinding, causing lips and cheeks to tremble, and eyes turn blood-red. Breath turns heavy, instigating violence. All this casts a spell of delusion, leading to disarray and unruly behaviour.
Losing all sense of proportion, restraint and discrimination, the angry individual swings into acts of cruelty, forgetting himself and the surroundings.
Intelligence is the last faculty to guide the mind, senses and body. It loses its place, worth and strength in such a blinding spell and fails to apply its discrimination. And lo, follows the precipitous fall, destruction!
The seeker should repeatedly dwell upon the whole sequence of how an initial sensory urge can cast its deluding note, capturing the mind and intelligence and subjecting one’s inner personality to such helplessness and downfall.
