Mūla — the verse
Gita Press numberingTranslation
Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣyaThe organs, mind, and intellect are said to be its abode. This one diversely deludes the embodied being, veiling Knowledge with the help of these.
हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda
इन्द्रियाँ, मन और बुद्धि इसके निवास स्थान कहे जाते हैं; यह काम इनके द्वारा ही ज्ञान को आच्छादित करके देही पुरुष को मोहित करता है।।
Pronunciation — Vaamshii
from VaamshiiWord by word
padārthaThemes
from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad GītāMeaning — Questions & Solutions
from Q&A with KnAFor this enemy of the Puruṣa to work its mischief, it needs a few toys — otherwise how would it play? Its playthings are the mind, the senses and the intellect. It clouds the intellect, confuses it, manufactures self-serving justifications and moral compromises. It occupies the mind and spends its enormous energy in expansion, by repeated thought. It commands the senses to behave as it wishes, to gather biased data from the world and to react as the mad emperor, Ego, dictates.