Kama in the Bhagavad Gita

Verses across the Gita that speak to kama, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.

• 2.42Beautiful words can hide a mind trapped by desire.
• 2.55Steadiness begins when desire no longer defines your sense of enough.
• 2.62What you dwell on becomes what you cling to, then what burns you.
• 2.70Peace belongs to the one who stays steady while desire moves.
• 3.37Desire is not harmless; it mutates into the force that ruins judgment.
• 3.38Clear seeing is not destroyed; it is simply covered.
• 3.39Desire does not just tempt; it hides wisdom itself.
• 3.40Desire conquers by hijacking the mind's own instruments.
• 3.41Sense-control comes before clear action.
• 3.42Desire sits above reason, so mastery must begin earlier.
• 3.43Desire loses power when the higher mind takes command.
• 5.23Master the surge before it masters you.
• 5.26Freedom comes when desire and anger no longer govern the mind.
• 6.24Desire loses power when the mind stops feeding it.
• 7.20Desire clouds judgment and sends the mind toward smaller refuges.
• 9.21What is won by wanting is lost by time.
• 16.10Endless wanting turns the mind into a home for delusion.
• 16.11Endless wanting turns life into a tunnel with no horizon.
• 16.12Desire and anger turn ambition into injustice.
• 16.16Desire scatters the mind, and confusion turns that scattering into a fall.
• 16.18Ego makes you fight the divine presence you carry yourself.
• 16.21Three inner forces open the way to ruin; dropping them protects the self.
• 16.22Freedom from the three dark impulses opens the way to your highest good.