Verse 360

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। ॥ ३६० ॥

In plain words

Let rajas take hold of the mind with its defects, with the qualities that scatter it, and let desire and the rest — every one of them running against you — overwhelm it without a pause: then the mind turns and torments you. Even a mind that had somehow grasped the subtle truth now staggers wildly off. It is a lamp with its whole brightness beaten out by a hard wind.

Close to the Sanskrit

If it becomes joined with the defects of rajas, with the distracting qualities, ceaselessly overpowered by the hostile forces beginning with desire, it torments; even though it possesses some comprehension of subtle matters, it wanders violently — the mind, like a lamp whose splendour has been shattered by a powerful wind.