Canto 11: General HistoryChapter 13: The Hamsa-avatara Answers the Questions of the Sons of Brahma

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 11.13.12

rajas-tamobhyam yad api

vidvan vikshipta-dhih punah

atandrito mano yunjan

dosha-drishtir na sajjate

SYNONYMS

rajah-tamobhyam -- by the modes of passion and ignorance; yat api -- even though; vidvan -- a learned person; vikshipta -- bewildered; dhih -- the intelligence; punah -- again; atandritah -- carefully; manah -- the mind; yunjan -- engaging; dosha -- the contamination of material attachment; drishtih -- seeing clearly; na -- not; sajjate -- becomes attached.

TRANSLATION

Although the intelligence of a learned person may be bewildered by the modes of passion and ignorance, he should again carefully bring the mind under control. By clearly seeing the contamination of the modes of nature, he does not become attached.

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