This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

The senses, the mind and the understanding are said to be the seat, the resort, of this desire. Through these, the senses and the rest, as its seats, this desire deludes in many ways, covering over knowledge, the embodied one, the one who has a body. Since it is so.

The senses, the mind, and the understanding are its seat; by these, the senses, mind, and understanding which are the seat of desire and are bent toward objects, it veils the knowledge of the embodied one joined with matter and utterly deludes him: it deludes him in many ways, makes him turned away from knowledge of the self and bent on the experience of objects. This is the meaning.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

To slay the enemy, Krishna names its seat, with 'the senses'. By these, the senses, the buddhi and the rest, when turned toward objects, knowledge is veiled. For an enemy whose seat is taken away perishes.