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यततो ह्यपि कौन्तेय पुरुषस्य विपश्चितः। इन्द्रियाणि प्रमाथीनि हरन्ति प्रसभं मनः।।2.60।।

yatato hyapi kaunteya puruṣhasya vipaśhchitaḥ indriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaṁ manaḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 60
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The turbulent senses, O Arjuna, can violently carry away the mind of a wise person, even though they are striving to control them.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: even the wise, striving hard, can be dragged along by turbulent senses, quietly retracting any idea that steadiness, once reached, becomes permanent or effortless.

In life: backsliding after real progress isn't proof the progress was fake.

Teaching: treat a slip after real growth as expected friction, not evidence that none of the work counted.

yatataḥwhile practicing self-control
hifor
apieven
kaunteyaArjun, the son of Kunti
puruṣhasyaof a person
vipaśhchitaḥone endowed with discrimination
indriyāṇithe senses
pramāthīniturbulent
haranticarry away
prasabhamforcibly
manaḥthe mind

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
2.60 यततः of the striving? हि indeed? अपि even? कौन्तेय O Kaunteya (son of Kunti)? पुरुषस्य of man? विपश्चितः (of the) wise? इन्द्रियाणि the senses? प्रमाथीनि turbulent? हरन्ति carry away? प्रसभम् violently? मनः the mind.Commentary The aspirant should first bring the senses under his control. The senses are like horses. If you keep the horses under your perfect control you can reach your destinaton safely. Turbulent horses will throw you down on the way. Even so the turbulent senses will hurl you down into the objects of the senses and you cannot reach your spiritual destination? viz.? Param Dhama (the supreme abode) or the abode of eternal peace and immortality or Moksha (final liberation). (Cf.III.33V.14).