The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja's Gita Bhashya, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 66
Nasti buddhih ayuktasya nacha ayuktasya bhavana I
Nacha bhavayatah shantih ashantasya kutah sukham II sloka 66
नास्ति बुद्धिः अयुक्तस्य नच अयुक्तस्य भावना ।
नच भावयतः शान्तिः अशान्तस्य कुतः सुखं ।। श्लोक ६६
There is no Buddhi for the unintegrated, nor for him is there contemplation of the self; and for him without contemplation of the self, there is no peace; and for one lacking peace, where is happiness?
In him who does not focus his mind on Me but is engaged only in the control of senses by his own exertion, the Buddhi or the right disposition that is concerned with the pure self never arises. Therefore he fails in the practice of meditation on the self. In one who cannot think of the pure self, there arises the desire for sense objects; in him serenity does not arise. How can eternal and unsurpassed bliss be generated in him who is not serene but is attached to sense objects? [ The idea is that without the aid of devotion to God, the effort to control the senses by on's will power alone will end in failure]
In the next sloka Sri Krishna speaks of the calamity that befalls one who does not practise the control of senses in the prescribed way.
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