Chapter 2 - Verse 63

क्रोधाद्भवति सम्मोहः सम्मोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः ।
स्मृतिभ्रंशाद्बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति ॥ ६३ ॥

krodhādbhavati sammohaḥ sammohātsmṛtivibhramaḥ .
smṛtibhraṃśādbuddhināśo buddhināśātpraṇaśyati .. 63 ..


From wrath arises delusion; from delusion, failure of memory; from failure of memory, loss of conscience; from loss of conscience he is utterly ruined.
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From wrath arises delusion, a lack of discrimination between right and wrong. Verily, when a wrathful man gets infatuated, he is led to insult even the Guru. From infatuation follows failure of memory. Despite the presence of favourable conditions, no reminiscences arise of things already impressed upon the mind by the teachings of the sastras and of the teacher (acharya). From failure of memory follows loss of conscience (buddhi)—the inability of the inner sense (antah-karana) to discriminate between right and wrong (karya and a-karya). By loss of conscience he is utterly ruined. Man is man only so long as his antah-karana is competent to discriminate between right and wrong. When it is unable to do so, the man is utterly ruined. Thus, by loss of conscience (antah-karana, buddhi) he is ruined, he is debarred from attaining human aspirations.

Sense-control leads to peace and happiness.

The contemplation of sense-objects has been described as the source of all evil. Now the means of deliverance (moksha) is described as follows :