एवं बुद्धेः परं बुद्ध्वा संस्तभ्यात्मानमात्मना | जहि शत्रुं महाबाहो कामरूपं दुरासदम् ||३-४३||
evaṃ buddheḥ paraṃ buddhvā saṃstabhyātmānamātmanā . jahi śatruṃ mahābāho kāmarūpaṃ durāsadam ||3-43||
Chapter 3 · Verse 43
Karma Yoga
कर्मयोग
In plain words
You must conquer your selfish desires by anchoring your mind in your highest spiritual intellect. By practicing karma yoga, which is selfless action dedicated to the divine, you can master your lower impulses. Use your inner strength to defeat the restless cravings that block your peace and keep you from realizing your true nature.
Translation
3.43 Thus, knowing that which is higher than the intellect and fixing the mind with the help of the intellect in Karma Yoga, O Arjuna, slay this enemy which wears the form of desire, and which is difficult to overcome.
Meaning
Restrain the lower self by the higher Self. Subdue the lower mind by the higher mind. It is difficult to coner desire because it is of a highly complex and incomprehensible nature. But a man of discrimination and dispassion who does constant and intense Sadhana can coner it ite easily. Desire is the ality of Rajas. If you increase the Sattvic ality in you you can coner desire. Rajas cannot stand before Sattva. Even though desire is hard to coner it is not impossible. The simple and direct method is to appeal to the Indwelling Presence (God) through prayer and Japa. Thus in the Upanishads of the glorious Bhagavad Gita the science of the Eternal the scripture of Yoga the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna ends the third discourse entitledThe Yoga of Action.
Word by word
एवम् thus बुद्धेः than the intellect परम् superior बुद्ध्वा having known संस्तभ्य restraining आत्मानम् the self आत्मना by the Self जहि slay thou शत्रुम् the enemy महाबाहो O mightyarmed कामरूपम् of the form of desire दुरासदम् hard to coner.