SB 11.13.12
Srimad-Bhagavatam, Eleventh Canto, Chapter 13: The Haḿsa-avatāra Answers the Questions of the Sons of Brahmā
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 12
rajas-tamobhyāṁ yad api
vidvān vikṣipta-dhīḥ punaḥ
atandrito mano yuñjan
doṣa-dṛṣṭir na sajjate
SYNONYMS
rajaḥ-tamobhyām—by the modes of passion and ignorance; yat api—even though; vidvān—a learned person; vikṣipta—bewildered; dhīḥ—the intelligence; punaḥ—again; atandritaḥ—carefully; manaḥ—the mind; yuñjan—engaging; doṣa—the contamination of material attachment; dṛṣṭiḥ—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.