| 35. The Blessed
Lord said:Doubtless, O mightyarmed, the mind is hard to restrain and restless
; but by practice, O son of Kunti, and by indifference it may be restrained.Practice
consists in constantly repeating the same idea or thought regarding some
one object of thought. Indifference means freedom from desire for any pleasures
seen or unseen, attained through a constant perception of evil in them.
It is by practice and indifference that vikshepa, the passage of thought
in the direction of external objects, can be restrainedIt is thus that the
mind is restrained.But as regards him who is not selfcontrolled: |
