Sankhya Yoga

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61. Restraining them all, a man should remain steadfast, intent on Me. His

knowledge is steady whose senses are under control.

 

62. When a man thinks of objects, attachment for them arises. From attachment

arises desire; from desire arises wrath.

 

63. From wrath arises delusion; from delusion, failure of memory; from failure

of memory, loss of conscience; from loss of conscience he is utterly ruined.

 

64. He attains peace, who, self-controlled, approaches objects with the senses

devoid of love and hatred and brought under his own-control.

 

65. In peace there is an end of all his miseries; for, the reason of the

tranquil-minded soon becomes steady.

 

66. There is no wisdom to the unsteady, and no meditation to the unsteady, and

to the un-meditative no peace; to the peaceless, how can there be happiness ?

 

67. For, the mind which yields to the roving senses carries away his knowledge,

as the wind (carries away) a ship on water.

 

68. Therefore, O mighty-armed, his knowledge is steady whose senses have been

entirely restrained from sense-objects.

 

69. What is night to all beings, therein the self controlled one is awake. Where

all beings are awake, that is the night of the sage who sees.

 

70. He attains peace, into whom all desires enter as waters enter the ocean,

which, filled from all sides, remains unaltered; but not he who desires objects.

 

71. That man attains peace, who, abandoning all desires, moves about without

attachment, without selfishness, without vanity.

 

72. This is the Brahmic state, O son of Pritha. Attaining to this, none is

deluded. Remaining in this state even at the last period of life, one attains to

the felicity of Brahman.

 

to be continued...