The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja Gita Bhashyam, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
The origin of sin - 36-43
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 3 -Karma Yaoga - Sloka 41
Tasmat tvam indriyani adau niyamya bharata rishabha I
Papmanam prajahi hi enam gyan vigyan nashanam II sloka 41
तस्मात त्वां इन्द्रियाणि आदौ नियम्य भारत ऋषभ ।
पाप्मानं प्रजहि हि एनं ज्ञान विज्ञान नाशनं ।। श्लोक ४१
Therefore, O Arjuna, controlling the senses in the very beginning, slay this sinful thing that destroys both knowledge & discrimination.
A person engaged in Jnana Yoga, is to abandon activities of all the senses. However, desire turns him away from the self by creating infatuation for objects of the senses. For the same reason, we who are yoked to the activities of the senses, being in conjunction with Prakriti, should control the senses by practice of karma yoga. This has to be done at the very beginning since it provides for the regulation of the senses. And then we must slay this desire since it destroys knowledge and discrimination - ie. knowledge relating to the nature of self and the discrminative power, which is the means to gain this knowledge.
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