Bhagavad Gita 16.10
काममाश्रित्य दुष्पूरं दम्भमानमदान्विताः । मोहाद्गृहीत्वासद्ग्राहान्प्रवर्तन्तेऽशुचिव्रताः ॥
kāmam āśritya duṣpūraṁ dambha-māna-madānvitāḥ mohād gṛhītvāsad-grāhān pravartante 'śuci-vratāḥ
Translation
Filled with insatiable lust, with hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, holding false notions through delusion, they act with impure resolves.
Reflection
Pick one action from this week and trace whether it led toward peace or toward more wanting.
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Sixteen
Each marker is a working part. Kama dushpuram: lust that cannot be filled, because what feeds it grows the hunger. Dambha-mana-mada: hypocrisy, pride, arrogance, the surface decoration that hides the engine. Moha-grihita asad-graha: clutching of false notions through delusion. Ashuchi-vrata: impure resolves, vows made in service of unclean ends. Look at how the parts fit. Insatiable craving inside, performance of virtue outside, deluded grip on what is not true, and vows that consecrate the lie. A whole apparatus, internally consistent, externally polished. The seeker recognizes the apparatus by its outputs: actions that do not lead toward peace, only toward more wanting. Krishna gives the diagnostic precisely so the seeker can name the parts when they assemble in self.