काम एष क्रोध एष रजोगुणसमुद्भवः।महाशनो महापाप्मा विद्ध्येनमिह वैरिणम्॥
kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥmahāśano mahā-pāpmā viddhyenam iha vairiṇam
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
Krishna said: It is wanting. It is anger. It comes out of the restless strand, it eats everything, it does great harm. Know that as the enemy here.
सरल शब्दों में
One answer, named twice.
Kāma — wanting. Krodha — anger. And Krishna treats them as one thing, as he did at 2.62.
The descriptions are physical: mahāśanaḥ, the great eater. It consumes.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
The amount that would be enough has moved every time you reached it, and it has never once announced that it was moving.
और गहराई में
Krishna answers a question about what makes us act against ourselves by naming a single cause, and the economy of that is worth noticing.
Not many vices. One mechanism, appearing as wanting when the road is clear and as anger when it is blocked. 2.62 traced the sequence; this names the thing doing it.
Rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ — arising from rajas, the strand of restlessness and drive. This is the second appearance of the guṇas in the chapter and it locates the problem in nature's machinery rather than in a moral failing.
Mahāśana — the great devourer. The word choice matters because it says something specific about desire: it does not get satisfied, it gets fed. Feeding is not the same as ending.
And vairiṇam — the enemy. It is the only place in these chapters where the Gita uses combat language for an inner state, and it is deliberate. Arjuna is a soldier being handed a target he can actually hit.