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 67
Why does not one with indisciplined mind get illumined? The answer comes ..
Indriyanam hi charatam yatmanah nuvidhiyate I
Tadasya harati pragyam vayuh navam ivambhasi II sloka 67
इन्द्रियाणां हि चरतां यतमानः नुविधियते ।
तदस्य हरति प्रज्ञं वायुः नवं इवाम्भसि ।। श्लोक ६७
For when the mind follows the senses experiencing their objects, his understanding is carried away by the as the wind carries away a ship on the waters.
That mind, which is allowed by a person to be submissive to i.e., allowed to go after the senses which go on operating, i.e. experiencing sense-objects, such a mind loses its inclination towards the pure self. The meaning is that it gets inclined towards sense-objects. Just as a contrary wind forcibly carries away a ship moving on the waters, in the same manner, wisdom also is carried away from such a mind. [The idea is that the pursuit of sense pleasures dulls one's spiritual inclination, and the mind ultimately succumbs to them unresisting.]
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