Kṛṣṇa describes the ‘Ladder of Fall’—the psychological chain reaction that leads to human destruction. It starts very innocently: just by contemplating or thinking about the objects of the senses. You dwell on a thought, and then ‘saṅgaḥ’, or attachment, begins to grow. From that attachment comes ‘kāmaḥ’, an intense desire or lust to possess the object. If that desire is blocked or unfulfilled, it inevitably turns into ‘krodhaḥ’, or anger. This verse warns us that the real battle is in the mind’s focus. The moment you let your mind linger on a temptation, you have stepped onto a slippery slope. A spiritual person must catch the mind at the very first stage—the stage of thinking—before the impulse snowballs into uncontrollable desire and rage. Prevention of a thought is easier than the cure of an obsession.