Passage 8

In English

The first step in this is to control the outer or external senses. The mind plays an important role in this context. The nature of the mind is to run after forbidden things. The mind desires to enjoy everything that it sees or comes across. Instead of allowing the mind to run after worldly objects freely, we must hand over charge to the intellect to inquire into the aspects of good or bad; desirability or otherwise and eternal or evanescent, with its faculty of reasoning and discrimination. The mind is simply blind. By following such a blind mind, we may fall in a ditch. Therefore, it is necessary to enquire into the good and bad of the resolve made by the mind, with the help of the discriminatory intellect.