Sanskrit · Devanagari
श्रीभगवानुवाच। असंशयं महाबाहो मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलम्। अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
śrībhagavānuvāca asaṃśayaṃ mahābāho mano durnigrahaṃ calam abhyāsena tu kaunteya vairāgyeṇa ca gṛhyate
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Doubtless, O you of mighty arms! the mind is difficult to restrain, and fickle. Still, O son of Kuntī ! it may be restrained by constant practice and by indifference (to worldly objects). It is my belief
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।6.35।। असंशयं नास्ति संशयः मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलम् इत्यत्र हे महाबाहो। किंतु अभ्यासेन तु अभ्यासो नाम चित्तभूमौ कस्यांचित् समानप्रत्ययावृत्तिः चित्तस्य। वैराग्येण वैराग्यं नाम दृष्टादृष्टेष्टभोगेषु दोषदर्शनाभ्यासात् वैतृष्ण्यम्। तेन च वैराग्येण गृह्यते विक्षेपरूपः प्रचारः चित्तस्य। एवं तत् मनः गृह्यते निगृह्यते निरुध्यते इत्यर्थः।।यः पुनः असंयतात्मा तेन
51c829c504ff…Rāmānuja
6.35 The Lord said No doubt, the mind is hard to subdue on account of its fickle nature. However, it can be subdued with difficulty by cultivating favourable attitude in the direction of the self by repeated contemplation of Its being a mind of auspicious attributes (these being eternality, self-luminosity, bliss, freedom from Karma, purity etc.), and by the absence of hankering produced by seeing the host of evil alities in objects other than the self hankered for.
4b58b5a3dace…Swami Sivananda
6.35 असंशयम् undoubtedly? महाबाहो O mightyarmed? मनः the mind? दुर्निग्रहम् difficult to control? चलम् restless? अभ्यासेन by practice? तु but? कौन्तेय O Kaunteya? वैराग्येण by dispassion? च and? गृह्यते is restrained. Commentary The constant or repeated effort to keep the wandering mind steady by constant meditation on the Lakshya (centre? ideal? goal or object of meditation) is Abhyasa or practice. The same idea or thought of the Self or God is constantly repeated. This constant repetition destroys Vikshepa or the vacillation of the mind and desires? and makes it steady and onepointed.Vairagya is dispassion or indifference to senseobjects in this world or in the other? here or hereafter? seen or unseen? heard or unheard? achieved through constantly looking into the evil in them (DoshaDrishti). You will have to train the mind by constant reflection on the immortal? allblissful Self. You must make the mind realise the transitory nature of the wordly enjoyments. You must suggest to the mind to look for its enjoyment not in the perishable and changing external objects but in the immortal? changeless Self within. Gradually the mind will be withdrawn from the external objects.
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