LED ASTRAY

By identifying with our senses, we are led astray.  The Bhagavad-Gita describes the process:

Thinking about sense-objects will attach you to sense-objects;
Grow attached, and you become addicted;
Thwart your addiction, it turns to anger;
Be angry, and you confuse your mind;
Confuse your mind, you forget the lesson of experience;
Forget experience, you lose discrimination;
Lose discrimination, and you miss life's only purpose.

Life's only purpose is, of course, union with the Atman which is Brahman.  The word "discrimination" here, incidentally, means what it does in Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination.  It is one's ability to discriminate between those activities that lead to union with Brahman and those activities that do not.