Sanskrit · Devanagari
यतो यतो निश्चरति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम्। ततस्ततो नियम्यैतदात्मन्येव वशं नयेत् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
yato yato niścarati manaścañcalamasthiram tatastato niyamyaitadātmanyeva vaśaṃ nayet
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Wherever the active and unsteady mind breaks forth, there one should ever restrain it, and fix it steadily on the self alone. The highest happiness comes to such a devotee whose mind is fully tranquil in whom the quality of passion has been suppressed
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।6.26।। यतो यतः यस्माद्यस्मात् निमित्तात् शब्दादेः निश्चरति निर्गच्छति स्वभावदोषात् मनः चञ्चलम् अत्यर्थं चलम् अत एव अस्थिरम् ततस्ततः तस्मात्तस्मात् शब्दादेः निमित्तात् नियम्य तत्तन्निमित्तं याथात्म्यनिरूपणेन आभासीकृत्य वैराग्यभावनया च एतत् मनः आत्मन्येव वशं नयेत् आत्मवश्यतामापादयेत्। एवं योगाभ्यासबलात् योगिनः आत्मन्येव प्रशाम्यति मनः।।
06849cda299a…Rāmānuja
6.26 Wherever the mind, on account of its fickle and unsteady nature, wanders, because of its proclivity to sense-objects, he should, subduing the mind everywhere with effort, bring it under control in order to remain in the self alone by contemplating on the incomparable bliss therein.
9b0d59f6f8d5…Swami Sivananda
6.26 यतःयतः from whatever cause? निश्चरति wanders away? मनः mind? चञ्चलम् restless? अस्थिरम् unsteady? ततःततः from that? नियम्य having restrained? एतत् this? आत्मनि in the Self? एव alone? वशम् (under) control? नयेत् let (him) bring.Commentary In this verse the Lord gives the method to control the mind. Just as you drag the bull again and again to your house when it runs out? so also you will have to drag the mind to your point or centre or Lakshya again and again when it runs towards the external objects. If you give good cotton seed extract? sugar? plantains? etc.? to the bull? it will not turn away but will remain in your house. Even so if you make the mind taste the eternal bliss of the Self within little by little by the practice of concentration? it will gradually abide in the Self only and will not run towards the external objects of the senses. Sound and the other objects only make the mind restless and unsteady. By knowing the defects of the objects of sensual pleasure? by understanding their illusory nature? by the cultivation of discrimination between the Real and the unreal and also dispassion? and by making the mind understand the glory and the splendour of the Self you can wean the mind entirely away from sensual objects and fix it firmly on the Self.
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