। ॥ ७९ ॥
In plain words
A sense-object’s poison is worse than a black cobra’s. Poison kills the one who takes it in — but the sense-object kills even the one who merely looks.
Close to the Sanskrit
Sense-object is more virulent in its harm than the poison of a black cobra even. That poison kills the one who consumes it; this kills even the one who merely sees with the eye.