Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.25.17

vikurvan kriyayā cā-dhīr

anivṛttiś ca cetasām

gātrāsvāsthyaḿ mano bhrāntaḿ

raja etair niśāmaya

SYNONYMS

vikurvan — becoming distorted; kriyayā — by activity; ca — and; ā — even up to; dhīḥ — the intelligence; anivṛttiḥ — failure to stop; ca — and; cetasām — on the part of the conscious faculties of intelligence and the senses; gātra — of the working senses; asvāsthyam — unhealthy condition; manaḥ — the mind; bhrāntam — unsteady; rajaḥ — passion; etaiḥ — by these symptoms; niśāmaya — you should understand.

TRANSLATION

You should discern the mode of passion by its symptoms — the distortion of the intelligence because of too much activity, the inability of the perceiving senses to disentangle themselves from mundane objects, an unhealthy condition of the working physical organs, and the unsteady perplexity of the mind.

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