Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self: Verse 60
यततो ह्यपि कौन्तेय पुरुषस्य विपश्चित: ।
इन्द्रियाणि प्रमाथीनि हरन्ति प्रसभं मन: ॥
yatato hy-api kaunteya puruṣasya vipaścita:
indriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaṃ mana: – 2.60
O son of Kunti, senses are strong, turbulent. They violently pull away the mind of even a discreet and striving seeker.
Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self - Verse 60
Ma Gurupriya
Krishna has so far been emphasizing evenness of mind towards sukha-duḥkhas, the only two mental responses to all the interactional outcomes. From the mind-plane, he makes a significant paradigm shift to the sensory plane.
Spirituality thrives on sensory control and refinement. Bhagavad Gita as a scientific treatise, śāstra, must and does have its rarity, called apoorvatā. It is sensory control and regulation, a discipline and refinement Krishna stresses throughout.
Senses are very powerful and dominant in involving the mind and making it outward. However discreet one may be, senses persist in getting the mind allured to one object of pleasure or another. Spiritually viewed, the role of the senses is to rob the mind thus, persuading it to be crazy for fleeting sensory indulgences. The tussle is ceaseless, and any extent of caution will not be in excess. But the reward for heeding it will be supreme!
