तस्माद्यस्य महाबाहो निगृहीतानि सर्वशः ।
इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेभ्यस्तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ॥ ६८ ॥
इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेभ्यस्तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ॥ ६८ ॥
tasmādyasya mahābāho nigṛhītāni sarvaśaḥ .
indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyastasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā .. 68 ..
Therefore, O mighty-armed, his knowledge is steady whose senses have been entirely restrained from sense-objects.
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It has been shown that evil arises from the senses pursuing sense-objects. Wherefore, that devotee’s knowledge is steady whose senses have been restrained from sense-objects (such as sound) in all forms, subjective and objective.
(6) The Universe, a mere dream to the Sage.
In the case of the man who possesses discriminative knowledge and whose knowledge has become steady, his experience of all matters, temporal and spiritual (laukika and vaidika, sensuous and supersensuous), ceases on the cessation of nescience (avidya); for, it is the effect of nescience : and nescience ceases because it is opposed to knowledge. To make this clear, the Lord proceeds :