इन्द्रियाणां हि चरतां यन्मनोऽनु विधीयते ।
तदस्य हरति प्रज्ञां वायुर्नावामिवाम्भसि ॥ ६७ ॥
तदस्य हरति प्रज्ञां वायुर्नावामिवाम्भसि ॥ ६७ ॥
indriyāṇāṃ hi caratāṃ yanmano’nu vidhīyate .
tadasya harati prajñāṃ vāyurnāvāmivāmbhasi .. 67 ..
For, the mind which yields to the roving senses carries away his knowledge, as the wind (carries away) a ship on water.
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For, the mind which yields to the senses engaged in their respective objects, i.e., the mind which is altogether engrossed in the thought of the various objects of the senses, destroys the devotee’s discriminative knowledge of the Self and the not-Self.—How?—As the wind carries away a ship from the intended course of the sailors and drives her astray, so the mind carries away the devotee’s consciousness from the Self and turns it towards sense-objects.
Having explained in several ways the proposition enunciated in ii. 60—61, the Lord concludes by reaffirming the same proposition :