# Bhagavad Gita 3.37

**Canonical reference:** `gita.3.37`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

श्रीभगवानुवाच।
काम एष क्रोध एष रजोगुणसमुद्भवः।
महाशनो महापाप्मा विद्ध्येनमिह वैरिणम् ॥

## IAST

śrībhagavānuvāca
kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajoguṇasamudbhavaḥ
mahāśano mahāpāpmā viddhyenamiha vairiṇam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

It is desire, it is wrath, born from the quality of passion it is very ravenous, very sinful. Know that that is the foe in this world. As fire is enveloped by smoke

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