अहंकारमहालानं तृष्णारज्जुं मनोमदम् ।जन्मजम्बालनिर्मग्नं जीवदन्तिनमुद्धरेत्
In plain words
One should draw up the jīva, an elephant — whose great tethering-post is ahaṃkāra, whose rope is tṛṣṇā, whose rut-frenzy is the mind — sunk deep in the mire of birth.