“It is desire, it is anger, born of the restless force in us, all-devouring and all-corrupting. Know this as the enemy here.”

Arjuna asks what drags a person into doing wrong even when they want to do right. The answer names no villain across the field: it is the wanting that is never satisfied, and the heat that rises when it is denied.

Naming it is half the work. Once desire and anger are seen as one force wearing two faces, you can watch it move in yourself with a little distance, and distance is the beginning of a choice.