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THE BHAGAVAD-GITA.
The objects of sense, but not the relish for them,[1] turn away from an abstemious dweller in the body; and even relish turneth away from him after the Supreme is seen. (59)
यततो ह्यपि कौन्तेय पुरुषस्य विपश्चितः ।
इन्द्रियाणि प्रमाथीनि हरन्ति प्रसभं मनः ॥ ६० ॥
O son of Kuntî, the excited senses of even a wise man, though he be striving, impetuously carry away his mind[2]. (60)
तानि सर्वाणि संयम्य युक्त आसीत मत्परः ।
वशे हि यस्येन्द्रियाणि तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ॥ ६१ ॥
Having restrained them all, he should sit harmonised, I his supreme goal; for, whose senses are mastered, of him the understanding[3] is well poised. (61)
