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66.na asthi budDhiH ayukthasay na cha ayukthasya bhaavanaa

    na cha  abhaavayathaH SanthiH asaanthasya kuthaH sukham

 One who has no control over his senses and the mind  will not have steadiness of mind nor  is he able to contemplate on the Lord.. Therefore for him there is no peace of mind and without peace of mind there is no happiness.

 

As explained in the previous two slokas, equanimity of mind can be achieved only when the mind  and the indhriyas through the mind are under control. This could be achieved only by the contemplation of the supreme self. This is denoted as bhavana. The mind of one who has no control over it, is agitated and runs after the sense objects. Hence his budDhi is not steady. Thus no contemplation on the Absolute is possible because the mind always wanders. Hence there is no peace and consequently no happiness.

 

Ramanuja defines ayuktha as mayi sannyastha mano rahithasya svayathnena pravrtthasya, meaning, one who has not fixed his mind on me but tries to control his senses by will. This has been explained in the sloka 58 as, the sure way of controlling the mind is to turn it towards the Lord.

 

So what happens to one who is unable to fix his mind in contemplation? The answer is,

 

67. indhriyaaNaam hi charathaam yath mano anuviDheeyatae

     thath asya harathi prajnaam vaayuH naavam iva ambhasi

 

 

The senses moving towards sense objects followed by the mind carries away the discrimination of one like the ship on waters by the wind.

 

Krishna reiterates the idea stressed in the sloka 60 where he said, indhriyaaNi pramaaTheeni haranthi prasabham manaH in a more poetic   _expression_ here. As the ship on the waters, which is not controlled properly is carried away by the wind and wanders aimlessly here and there, so too the mind is carried away by the senses wich makes it run after the sense objects.

 

The simile expressed above can be explained as follows. The intellect of one who has not controlled his senses and the mind is the ship. The wind is the sense to which the mind is attached. The waters are the ocean of samsara consisting of the streams of sense enjoyments. The goal of man is to reach the Supreme. But the sense experience draws him away from the goal and makes him get entangled in the whirlpool of desire and without realizing, he is carried far away from his destination. On the other hand when the same ship is steered by a capable helmsman it reaches the destination without obstacles. When the intellect is fixed on the Lord, He Himself becomes the Helmsman and guides us in the right direction

 

 

 

 

 

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