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Bhagavad Gita 2.62-2.63: How Anger Arises — and How to Stop It
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Dwelling on objects breeds attachment; attachment, desire; thwarted desire, anger; anger, delusion and ruin. Naming the chain is how you interrupt it.
“dhyāyato viṣayān puṁsaḥ saṅgas teṣūpajāyate”
Bhagavad Gita 2.62–2.63 · Chapter 2, Sankhya YogaDwelling on objects breeds attachment; from attachment, desire; from desire, anger; from anger, confusion. Watch where the mind dwells.
Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.
What it means
Dwelling on objects breeds attachment; from attachment, desire; from desire, anger; from anger, confusion. Watch where the mind dwells.
Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.
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Dwelling on objects breeds attachment; from attachment, desire; from desire, anger; from anger, confusion. Watch where the mind dwells. (Bhagavad Gita 2.62–2.63 · Chapter 2, Sankhya Yoga.) Godify shows this verse verbatim from a verified corpus with its exact source, never a paraphrase passed off as the original.
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