Attraction and repulsion are rooted in all sense-objects, .Man should never come under their sway, because these are the two main stumbling-blocks in his way.

One's own duty, though devoid of merit, is preferable to the duty of another well performed, .Even death in the performance of one's own duty brings blessedness, another's duty is fraught with fear.

Question= now impelled by what, oh god, does this man commit sin even involuntarily, as though driven by force !

Reply= .It is desire, it is wrath, begotten of the element of .Rajas, insatiable and grossly wicked, know this to be the enemy in this case.

As flame is enveloped by smoke, mirror by dirt, and embryo by the amnion, so knowledge is enveloped by it (desire).

So, you , .Knowledge is covered by this eternal enemy of the wise, the insatiable fire in the form of desire.

The senses, the mind and the intellect are said to be its seat, enveloping knowledge through these, it (desire) deludes the embodied soul.

Therefore, you , first controlling the senses, kill this wicked desire which obscures jnana ( knowledge of the .Absolute or .Nirguna .Brahma ) and vijnana ( knowledge of sakara .Brahma or manifest .Divinity ),

The senses are said to be greater than the body, but greater than the senses is the mind, .Greater than the mind is the intellect , and what is greater than the intellect is he ( the self ),

Thus, you, knowing that which is higher than the intellect and subduing the mind by reason, kill this enemy in the form of .Desire. , that is hard to overcome.

I taught this immortal .Yoga to vivaswan(sun-god), vivaswan conveyed it to .Manu(his son), and manu imparted it to (his son) .Ikswaku.

Thus handed down from father to son, you, this yoga remained know to the rajarsis(royal sages). By great efflux of time, however, it has more or less disappeared.

The same ancient .Yoga has this day been imparted to you by .Me., because you are .My devotee and friend, and also because this is a supreme secret.

Question= .You are of recent origin, while the birth of .Vivaswan dates back to remote antiquity, how,then, am i to understand that you taught at the beginning of creation?

You, you and i have passed through many births. I know them all, while you do not, .O chastiser of foes.

Though unborn and immortal, and also the .Lord of all beings, i manifest .Myself through .My own .Yogamaya ( devine potency ) , keeping .My nature (prakrti) under control.

You, whenever there is decline of righteousness, and unrighteousness is in the ascendant, then i body .Myself forth.

For the protection of the virtuous, for the destruction of evil-doers, and for establishing .Dharma (righteousness) on a firm footing, .I am born from age to age,

You, .My birth and activities are divine, .He who knows this in reality does not take birth again on leaving his body, but attains .Me.

Completely rid of passion, fear and anger, wholly absorbed in .Me. , depending on .Me.,and purified by the penance of wisdom, many have become one with .Me. , even in the past.