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Bhagavad Gita 3.6

कर्मेन्द्रियाणि संयम्य य आस्ते मनसा स्मरन्।इन्द्रियार्थान्विमूढात्मा मिथ्याचारः स उच्यते॥

karmendriyāṇi saṃyamya ya āste manasā smaran |indriyārthānvimūḍhātmā mithyācāraḥ sa ucyate ||

He who, restraining the organs of action, sits thinking of the sense-objects in his mind, he of deluded understanding is called a hypocrite.

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

He who remains motionless, refusing to act, yet brooding over sensuous objects, is that deluded soul simply a hypocrite.

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.

Bhagavad Gita 3.6 · SatsangVidya