THE HOLY GITA
CHAPTER NUMBER 06
DHYANA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF MEDITATION
VERSE NUMBER 26
Text in Transliteration:
yato-yato niscarati manas cancalam asthiram
tatas-tato niyamyai ‘tad aatmany eva vasam nayet
Text in English:
By whatever cause the wavering and unsteady mind wanders away, let him curb it from that and subjugate it solely to the Self.
COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIDBHAVANANDA:
There are miscreants who, while posing to act within the bounds of 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.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA AS QUOTED BY SWAMI SIDBHAVANANDA:
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, fulfil the innocent and harmless little desires before doing away with them and to mercilessly exterminate the baneful ones with the sword of discrimination.
COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIVANANDA:
In this verse the Lord gives the method to control the mind. Just as you drag the bull again and again to your house when it runs out, so also you will have to drag the mind to your point of centre or Lakshya again and again when it runs towards the external objects. If you give good cotton seed exract, sugar, plantatains, etc., to the bull, it will not run away but will remain in your house. Even so if you make the mind taste the eternal bliss of the Self within little by little by the practice of concentration, it will gradually abide in the Self only and will not run towards the external objects of the senses. Sound and the other objects only ake the mind restless and unsteady. By knowing the defects of the objects of external defects of external pleasure, by understanding their illusory nature by the cultivation of discrimination between the Real and the unreal and also dispassion, and by making the mind understand the glory and the splendour, of the Self you can wean the mind entirely away form the sensual object and fix it firmly on the Self.
Comment by the blogger:
Cricket is a mind game, the great commentator like Sunil Gavaskar said. What he means by this is the game must be played in the minds of the eleven men, and this, apart from the nets will be useful. When the going gets tough the tough get going. If the game is played by mind on the previous day by an individual player, he would be standing like a rock between the bowlers on both sides and mindful of the ball to be hit and others best defended or and thus tire the bowlers. In the course of say three overs. Then, on the pitch also there will be a tussle between two bowlers and the two batsmen. Once two overs are sent down from both sides, the way the pitch is going to play throughout the day or even innings. Then both the bowlers and batsmen make slightest adjustment. Then it would be a tussle not so much as their bodies as their individual minds. Once the batsman realizes the ball come nicely to the bat then he would shed his initial reserve and start to strike the ball all around the pitch and even over the boundary! On the other hand, if the pitch is helpful to the bowlers they would seek to utilize the pitch with some grass on it and the wind blowing in their favour, they would send down ball after ball and the mind of the batsman should not be covering. They must defend like Sunil Gavaskar who would put forward his left foot and to defend the on coming erstwhile West Indian bowlers and which ever delivery does not come up his bat and pad, he would simply leave for the keeper. Now is the time of one day match and madly frenetic T20 matches. Even now some of the picture perfect Sunny’s defends might give great dividends. Because of the inability of Koli, Rohit Sharma and Dawan to stay put for say a quarter of hours defending the outside the off stump balls, the other side would have lost their mind and strength so that 300 and odd ball might not have boggled our batsmen.
The mind has a great power over the body and our character while thinking about charater of any us. Mind is compared with a monkey which has been bitten by a scorpion and over that it had drunk the toddy or arrack! While mind has great strength on our intellect, discrimination must come to our
Help. Otherwise, we are sunk.
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