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Knowledge is enveloped by this, which
constitutes the incessant enemy of the knower
in the nature of passion, greed, O son of Kunti.
It is like the insatiable fire.
Note: Krishna emphasizes how desire, greed and
passion eclipse knowledge and instigate one to take
to anything wrong, harmful and even devastating. This
is so in spite of any inner resistance one feels to its
tempation and persuasion.
Krishna describes passion as extremely powerful. Of
all the destructive missions at work in the world, that
of passion, greed and possessiveness is the worst, most
formidable.
For this reason, the Knowers of Truth consider it as
the enemy number one, against which any extent of
caution and defence will not be an excess.
The best way, Krishna says, to illustrate the havoc it
works is to liken it with fire, which goes on blazing
the more and more it is fed. Fire is truly insatiable in
its hunger and thirst.
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