In the course of a conversation with an Andhra visitor, Sri Bhagavan quoted:
“Asamsayam mahābāho mano durnigraham chalamAbhyāsena tu Kaunteya vairāgyena cha grhyate”—Bh. Gita, Ch. VI, 35.
“Without doubt, O long-armed Hero,the mind is restless, hard to curb.Yet by constant effort, Partha,matched with detachment—curbed it is.”
To explain Sri Bhagavan again quoted:
Sankalpaprabhavān kāmāms tyaktvā sarvān aseshatahManasaivendriyagrāmam viniyamya samantatah”(Ch. VI, 24).
“Having cast out without remainsall longings born of thought for self,Having drawn in by mind alonehis team of senses from all sides.—”
As for practice ():
“Sanaissanairuparamet buddhya dhrigrhitayaĀtmasamstam manah krtvā na kinchidapi chintayet”(VI—25)
“By slow approaches let him cometo rest, with patient, rock-poised Will;His mind at home in Selfhood pure,let him create no thought at all.”
Again for :
“Yato yato nischarati manas chanchalam asthiramTatastato niyamyai tad ātmanyeva vaśam nayet”(VI—26)
“Though over and over the fickle mind,all restlessness, a-wandering goes,Still over and over let him regaincontrol, and poise it back in Self.”