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Bhagavad Gita 2.62

ध्यायतो विषयान्पुंसः सङ्गस्तेषूपजायते।सङ्गात् संजायते कामः कामात्क्रोधोऽभिजायते॥

dhyāyato viṣayānpuṃsaḥ saṅgasteṣūpajāyate |saṅgāt saṃjāyate kāmaḥ kāmātkrodho'bhijāyate ||

When one thinks of objects, attachment to them arises; from attachment, desire is born; from desire, anger arises.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

When a person dwells on the objects of sense, they create an attraction for them; this attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.