Ramanuja's Gita Bhashyam - Chapter 2 - sloka 60

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja's Gita Bhashya, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

The Enlightened Defined -54-72

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 60

Krishna killing Aghasura

Yatato hyapi kaunteya purushasya vipashchitah I

Indriyani pramadhini haranti prasabham manah II sloka 60

यततो ह्यपि कौन्तेय पुरुषस्य विपश्चितः ।

इन्द्रियाणि pramaadhini हरन्ति प्रसभं मनः ।। श्लोक ६० 

The turbulent senses, O Arjuna, do carry away perforce the mind of even a wise man, though he is ever striving.

Except by the experience of the self, the hankering for objects will not go away. When the hankering for the sense-objects does not go away, the senses of even a wise man  though he is ever striving to subdue them, become refractory, ie., become violent and carry away the mind. Thus, the subduing of the senses depends on the vision of the self, and the vision of the self depends on the subduing of the senses. Consequently, ie., because of this mutual dependence, firm devotion to knowledge is difficult to achieve.