Chapter 25
विकुर्वन् क्रियया चाधीरनिवृत्तिश्च चेतसाम् । गात्रास्वास्थ्यं मनो भ्रान्तं रज एतैर्निशामय ॥ १७ ॥
Transliteration
vikurvan kriyayā cā-dhīr anivṛttiś ca cetasām gātrāsvāsthyaṁ mano bhrāntaṁ raja etair niśāmaya
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
vikurvan — becoming distorted; kriyayā — by activity; ca — and; ā — even up to; dhīḥ — the intelligence; anivṛttiḥ — failure to stop; ca — and; cetasām — on the part of the conscious faculties of intelligence and the senses; gātra — of the working senses; asvāsthyam — unhealthy condition; manaḥ — the mind; bhrāntam — unsteady; rajaḥ — passion; etaiḥ — by these symptoms; niśāmaya — you should understand.
Translation
“You should discern the mode of passion by its symptoms — the distortion of the intelligence because of too much activity, the inability of the perceiving senses to disentangle themselves from mundane objects, an unhealthy condition of the working physical organs, and the unsteady perplexity of the mind.”