Power of lust

We all know lust as something that occupies us without knowing to us and takes us down. The roots of lust are indeed very deep. Sri Krishna has hinted at it in an answer to a pertinent question asked by Arjuna

Arjuna asks : Prompted by what does a man commit sin, even though unwilling, being goaded, as it were, by force?

The lord says : This is lust, this is anger, born of the constituents of rajas, of inordinate appetite and is most sinful. Know it to be an enemy here. O son of Kunti, knowledge is covered by this enemy of wise in form of lust which is like insatiable fire. The senses, the mind, and the intellect are said to be its seats. Covering knowledge by these, it deludes the embodied being. Thus knowing that which is beyond the intellect (self) and controlling the mind by the intellect (self), kill, O mighty armed one(Arjuna), the enemy in the form of lust, which is difficult to conquer.


Never be a slave to lust.