The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
Progress in Yoga - 21-28
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 6 - Dhyana Yoga - Sloka 24
Sankalpa prabhavan kaman tyaktva sarvan asheshatah I
Manasa eva indriya gramam viniyamya samantatah II sloka 24
संकल्प प्रभवान कामान त्यक्त्वा सर्वान अशेषतः ।
मनसा एव इन्द्रिय ग्रामं विनियम्य समन्ततः ।। श्लोक २४
Abandoning without reserve all desires born of sankalpa, and curbing in, by the mind, all the senses from all sides;
The formative thought lurking in the mind is sankalpa. It is this seed of sankalpa that sprouts and grows into the plant of desire. The desire that is like a spark today is capable of developing into a conflagration tomorrow. It is therefore to be entirely eliminated with the weapons of discrimination and dispassion. The senses are safe only when freed from desire.
However carefully a man may move about in a room full of soot, his clothes are bound to be stained a little at least. In the same way he who lives in the midst of sense objects is bound to be tainted with a trace at least of lust.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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