(4) Complete withdrawal of senses from objects.
Moreover,
यदा संहरते चायं कूर्मोऽङ्गानीव सर्वशः ।
इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेभ्यस्तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ॥ ५८ ॥
yadā saṃharate cāyaṃ kūrmo’ṅgānīva sarvaśaḥ .
indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyastasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā .. 58 ..
When he completely withdraws the senses from sense-objects, as the tortoise (withdraws) its limbs from all sides, his knowledge is steady.
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He, i.e., the devotee who strives in the path of knowledge (jnana-nishtha), withdraws his senses from all objects as the tortoise withdraws its limbs from all sides out of fear.
(Question) :—Now, even the senses of a diseased man who is not able to partake of sensuous objects withdraw from sense-objects, but the taste for them ceases not. How does that cease?
(Answer) :—Listen :