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 26
Yatah yatah nicharati manah chanchalam asthiram I
Tatah tatah niyamya etat atmani eva vasam nayet II sloka 26
यतः यतः निश्चरति मनः चञ्चलं अस्थिरं ।
ततः ततः नियम्य एतत् आत्मनि एव वशं नयेत ।। श्लोक २६
By whatever cause the wavering and unsteady mind wanders away, let him curb it from that and subjugate it solely to the Self.
There are miscreants who, while posing to act within the bounds of the law, try to circumvent it to their selfish ends. Mind plays the same mischief while yet in the process of subjugation. When weaned away from one object, it gets unwittingly attached to another. With proper discrimination it has to be saved from several pitfalls and placed safely at the feet of the Lord. This is the purport of His exhorting the attainment of calmness stage by stage. The danger of a fall is possible until the mind is completely made over to the Lord.
The vision of the Lord is not possible as long as even an iota of desire is left lingering in the mind. You ought to therefore, fulfill the innocent and harmless little desires before doing away with them and to mercilessly exterminate the baneful ones with the sword of discrimination.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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