The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 68
How shall the senses be handled then? The answer comes.....
Tasmat yasya mahabaho nigrihitani sarvashah IIndriyani indriya arthabhyah tasya pragya pratishthita II sloka 68
तस्मात यस्य महाबाहो निगृहीतानि सर्वशः ।
इन्द्रियाणि इन्द्रिय अर्थभ्यः तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ।। श्लोक ६८
Therefore, O mighty armed, his cognition is well poised, whose senses are completely restrained from their objects
The very purpose of being blessed with senses is defeated if they are not allowed to come in contact with the objects. That they should be referred defunct is not the teaching of the Lord. The deciding factor between good and evil is the attitude with which the senses are directed on the sense objects. Perceiving them with covetousness is sin, while viewing them as objects of adoration is virtue. Gluttony and slavery to the tongue is sin; eating to keep the body fit for a noble purpose is virtue. Beholdign the body of a person with a lustful eye is sin; Viewing it a s a temple of God is a virtue. All the 5 senses can be sublimated and the sense-objects sanctified in such a way that the divinity alone is contacted in and through all of them. Sri Ramakrishna perfected his sense of sight so well that womenfolk including the street walker were to him veritablle embodiments of the Divine Mother. Sublimation of the senses was at its zenith in him. Mastery over the senses in this manner makes on competent to gain intuitive knowledge of the Imperishable. This knowledge once obtained persists forever.
Blinkers have to be used in order to break a horse to the rein. Otherwise it will not be tamed. Vulgar desires have to be done away with in order to obtain the Divine. Purity of mind, complete sense control, desirelessness - these divine qualities make one competent to gain Godhood.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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