Arjuna asks
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 3.36“…what impels one to commit sin, even against their own will?”
Praśna No. 3
Kṛṣṇa answers
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 3.37“It is desire, it is wrath… Know this to be the enemy here.”
Not weakness. An enemy you can name.
Arjuna asks why we act against our own will, as if pushed. Kṛṣṇa does not call it weakness. He names it: desire, and the anger that follows when desire is blocked. An enemy you can name is one you can face.
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The verses
Arjuna asks
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 3.36अर्जुन उवाच
अथ केन प्रयुक्तोऽयं पापं चरति पूरुषः।
अनिच्छन्नपि वार्ष्णेय बलादिव नियोजितः।।
arjuna uvāca atha kena prayukto ’yaṁ pāpaṁ carati pūruṣaḥ anicchann api vārṣṇeya balād iva niyojitaḥ
Arjuna said, "But, O Krsna, what impels one to commit sin, even against their own will, as if constrained by force?"
Kṛṣṇa answers
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 3.37श्री भगवानुवाच
काम एष क्रोध एष रजोगुणसमुद्भवः।
महाशनो महापाप्मा विद्ध्येनमिह वैरिणम्।।
śrī bhagavān uvāca kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ mahāśano mahā-pāpmā viddhyenam iha vairiṇam
The Lord said, "It is desire, it is wrath, born of the guna of rajas; it is a great devourer, an impeller of sin. Know this to be the enemy here."
The count
3.36 is verse 155 of 700, and verse 36 of 43 in chapter 3.
Arjuna asks at 3.36 and Kṛṣṇa answers in the very next verse, 3.37.
Krodha (anger; akrodha not counted), in any form, appears in 13 verses of the 700, first at 2.56 and last at 18.53.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
Going deeper
3.35 has just told Arjuna that it is better to do your own duty poorly than another's well. That leads to his next question, in 3.36: what pushes a person to do wrong even against their own will, as if driven by force? The question names a very ordinary experience. Kṛṣṇa's reply in 3.37 gives it a name: it is desire, and it is anger, born of rajas, a great devourer and an impeller of wrong. He tells Arjuna to know this as the enemy here. 3.38 gives three images for how it covers things: fire is covered by smoke, a mirror by dust, and an embryo by its membrane, and so the world is covered by desire. The Gītā does not call the pull weakness. It calls it a force you can recognise. Read on in chapter 3, and what the Gītā says about anger collects related verses.