Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga: Verse 7
यस्त्विन्द्रियाणि मनसा नियम्यारभतेऽर्जुन ।
कर्मेन्द्रियै: कर्मयोगमसक्त: स विशिष्यते ।।
yas-tvindriyāṇi manasā niyamyārabhate’rjuna
karmendriyai: karma-yogam-asakta: sa viśiṣyate – 3.7
He who, regulating the sense-organs with the mind, without any delusional clinging, begins Karma-yoga with his organs of action, verily excels, O Arjuna.
Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga - Verse 7
Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha
What is truly needed is to reinforce the mind properly, and employ the senses with the right spiritual attitude and aim. Only when closely harnessed, the senses can work. So, to bridle them in the way you wish is certainly possible. This is where spiritual discretion has its place, worth and role.
With mind regulating the senses, let the interactions be. Good and bad, like and dislike, are urges the mind produces and imbibes. Correction, sublimation and elevation are to be cultivated and applied by the mind alone.
Interactions, in fact, give ample scope to detect one’s own wrongs and dispense with them. Without interactions, mind cannot display and discover its nature and defects.
Regulate the senses with the mind, and perform Karma- yoga. Have the necessary clarity and enlightenment, and make your actions noble, elevating and fulfilling. Then they will enrich you and benefit the society as well.
