Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Kama

काम · kāma

desire; craving

Wanting, especially the wanting of pleasure. Arjuna asks what drives a person to do wrong against their will, and Krishna answers: desire, which turns into anger when blocked. It hides knowledge as smoke hides fire. Yet the Gita does not condemn all desire. Krishna says he himself is the desire in beings that does not go against dharma.

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Bhagavad Gita 2.62 · Bhagavad Gita 2.70 · Bhagavad Gita 3.37 · Bhagavad Gita 7.11