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अभिध्या विषयाभिध्यानं प्रथमं हन्ति विनाशयति स्वरूपात्प्रच्युतिं करोति ।ततो विषयध्यानाभिहतम् एनं विषयसन्निधौ शीघ्रं प्रगृह्य कामश्च हन्ति, ततः कामाभिहतमेनं प्रगृह्य क्रोधश्च हन्ति ।तत एते अभिध्यादयः तानभिध्याकामक्रोधवशं गतान् बालान् विवेकहीनान्मूढान् मृत्यवे प्रापयन्ति प्रक्षिपन्ति ।श्रूयते च कठवल्लीषु—‘पराचः कामाननुयन्ति बाला
In plain words
Brooding on objects begins the destruction by stripping away your true nature. Then, weakened by that very brooding, desire seizes you, and when desire strikes, anger finishes the work. Thus these inner enemies—brooding, desire, and anger—hand over the undiscerning and deluded to death. As the Kaṭha Upaniṣad declares: 'The immature chase after outward desires.'
Close to the Sanskrit
Brooding on objects first kills, causing a fall from one's true nature. Then, struck by sense meditation, desire seizes him swiftly and kills; thereafter, anger seizes him and kills. Hence these, brooding and others, lead those foolish, deluded people who have fallen under the control of brooding, desire, and anger to death. And it is heard in the Kaṭhavallīs: 'Fools pursue outward desires.'