Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 38-39 from the third chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3, Verse 38:

धूमेनाव्रियते वह्निर्यथादर्शो मलेन च |

यथोल्बेनावृतो गर्भस्तथा तेनेदमावृतम् || 38||

dhūmenāvriyate vahnir yathādarśho malena cha

yatholbenāvṛito garbhas tathā tenedam āvṛitam

🔴Just as fire is obscured by smoke, a mirror by dirt and embryo by the womb, so is knowledge by craving.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3, Verse 39:

आवृतं ज्ञानमेतेन ज्ञानिनो नित्यवैरिणा |

कामरूपेण कौन्तेय दुष्पूरेणानलेन च || 39||

āvṛitaṁ jñānam etena jñānino nitya-vairiṇā

kāma-rūpeṇa kaunteya duṣhpūreṇānalena cha

🔴Knowledge, O son of Kunti, is obscured by this persistent foe of the knower, i.e. by craving, as by an insatiable fire.

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