Chapter 6 verse 35
“The blessed Lord said: Undoubtedly, the mind is
difficult to control and restless; but, by practice, and by dispassion, it is
restrained.”
Any wise person first has
the empathy to understand where the other person is situated, puts themselves
in the other person’s place and then shares their perspective. Lord Krishna is
the wisest of the wise and Lord of all saints and sages. He most compassionately
starts by agreeing with Arjuna about the difficulty of controlling the mind but
also lovingly explains that with self restraint and dispassion, it is possible
to control the mind. In vivekachudamani, Adi Shankara talks about the method by
which the Self can be realized. The first habit to develop for that path is “Vairagya”
or dispassion. The Vedas and Upanishads are full of utterances which say “na
iti”- this is not me or this is not mine. By detaching ourselves from
identification of self with body, mind and intellect and with only the
immutable Self, the path of Self realization begins.
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