Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 2 · Verse 62
BG 2.62
Thinking about sense objects creates attachment; from attachment comes desire; from desire comes anger.
dhyāyato viṣayān puṃsaḥ saṅgas teṣūpajāyate | saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ kāmāt krodho 'bhijāyate ||
Sanskrit / Transliteration
TRANSLATION
While contemplating on the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.
EXPLANATION
This begins the Gita's analysis of how the mind falls. The chain: thought → attachment → desire → anger. This is not moral judgment — it is psychological observation. Understanding this chain gives you the power to interrupt it at the earliest stage: the thought level.