The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
The Method 12-15
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 6 - Dhyana Yoga - Sloka 12
Tatra ekagram manah krutva yat chitta indriya kriyah I
Upa vishaya asane yunjat yogam atma vishuddaye II sloka 12
तत्र एकाग्रं मनः कृत्वा यत् चित्त इन्द्रिय क्रियः ।
उप विषय आसने युञ्जात योगं आत्म विषुद्दये ।। श्लोक १२
Sitting there on his seat, making the mind one-pointed and restraining the thinking faculty and the senses, he should pratise yoga for self purification.
Mind loses its innate purity to the extent it connects objects through the senses. It is very much like the rain water contacting the earth and becoming muddy. Suspending the senses and resting the mind in the self is the only means to reclaim it to its original state. Like bathing and cleansing the body with holy water, mind has to be purified by repeatedly merging it in the self. And this process is life long. It is to be as obligatory as bathing and eating. The power and potentiality of the mind increases as it progresses in self purification.
Milk gets easily mixed with water; but if it is churned into butter and put in water it floats maintaining its individuality instead. Man's mind that easily gets lost in sense objects has to be cultivated in devotion to the Lord in solitude. Worldly contact that comes subsequent to the development of devotion to the Lord causes no harm.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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