27th March, 1937

Talk 378.

In a conversation with an Andhra visitor, Sri Bhagavan quoted:

Asamsayam mahabaho mano durnigraham chalam
Abhyasena tu kaunteya vairagyena cha grhyate
— Bh. Gita, Ch. VI, 35
Without doubt, O mighty-armed Hero, the mind is restless, hard to curb. Yet by constant effort, Partha, matched with detachment - curbed it is.

To explain vairagya ^[?] Sri Bhagavan again quoted:

Sankalpaprabhavan kamams tyaktva sarvan aseshatah
Manasaivendriyagramam viniyamya samantatah
— (Ch. VI, 24)
Having cast out without remains all longing born of thought for self, Having drawn in by mind alone his team of senses from all sides -

As for practice (abhyasa ^[?]):

Sanaissanairuparamet buddhya dhritigrhitaya
Atmasamstham manah krtva na kinchidapi chintayet
— (VI - 25)
By slow approaches let him come to rest, with patient, rock-poised Will; His mind at home in Selfhood pure, Let him create no thought at all.

Again for jnana:

Yato yato nischarati manas chanchalam asthiram
Tatastato niyamyaitad atmanyeva vasam nayet

— (VI - 26)
Though over and over the fickle mind, all restlessness, a-wandering goes, Still over and over let his regain control, and poise it back in Self.

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