The senses, the mind, and the understanding (buddhi) are said to be its seat. By these it bewilders the embodied one (dehin), having enveloped knowledge (jñāna).
The senses, mind, and understanding are said to harbor desire; with these desire obscures knowledge and confounds the embodied self.
(40) Sense, mind, and soul, they say, are the places where it lurks; through these it smothers wisdom, fooling the embodied [self].
3.40 The organs, mind, and the intellect are said to be its abode. This one diversely deludes the embodied being by veiling Knowledge with the help of these.
3.40 The senses, the mind and the intellect are said to be its instruments. By these it overpowers the embodied self after enveloping Its knowledge.
3.40 The senses, the mind and the intellect are said to be its seat; through these it deludes the embodied by veiling his wisdom.