Chapter 6 verse 34
“The mind verily is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding;
I deem it quite as difficult to control as the wind”
Arjuna as if seeking clarification for all of us
spiritual seekers, states that it is indeed very difficult to control the mind
whose difficulty is comparable to controlling the wind or for that matter any
force of nature. In our scriptures, ‘deva’ is not just the divine beings of a
upper world but also denotes our senses. The metaphor of the Indra- who is lord
of the devas is to signify that, he who controls the senses, controls the world.
He who falls victim to the senses, succumbs to the vagaries of the world.
Arjuna, after hearing Krishna enumerate how to control one’s mind and focus
attention on the immutable soul is not convinced how to go about it. The power
of the inherent vasanas or tendencies in each of us is so strong that even when
the Divine is directly advising us, we cannot receive the knowledge until we
are ready for it! Is that not obvious after almost 6 chapters of the Bhagavat
Gita and so many years of all of our lives being lived in this illusory
existence.
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