BG 3.6

कर्मेन्द्रियाणि संयम्य य आस्ते मनसा स्मरन् ।
इन्द्रियार्थान्विमूढात्मा मिथ्याचारः स उच्यते ॥
karmendriyāṇi saṁyamya ya āste manasā smaran
indriyārthān vimūḍhātmā mithyācāraḥ sa ucyate

Word-for-word meanings

yaḥ — one who;  saṁyamya — while [outwardly] restraining;  karma-indriyāṇi — the organs of action [and the cognitive sense faculties as well];  āste — dwells;  manasā — mentally or internally;  smaran — in recollection;  indriya-arthān — of the sense objects;  saḥ — he [is];  vimūḍha-ātmā — of deluded intellect;  ucyate — [and] is called;  mithyā-ācāraḥ — a hypocrite.

Translation

A person who outwardly restrains the organs of action [and the cognitive sense faculties as well*] but who dwells internally upon the recollection of sense objects, is of deluded intellect and is called a hypocrite.

Notes

* The word karmendriyāṇi literally means “organs of action,” but here the term also includes the organs of knowledge. Hypocrisy cannot be complete unless the organs of knowledge are included in what is merely superficially restrained.

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