Bhagavad Gita Self Control Quotes

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He who can not be ruffled by contacts of the senses with their objects, who is calm and even minded during pain and pleasure, he alone is fit to attain everlastingness.
The man who physically fasts from the sense objects finds that the sense objects fall away for a little while, living behind only the longing for them. But he who beholds the supreme is freed even from longing.
Eager excitable senses do forcibly seize the consciousness even of one who has a high degree of enlightment, and is striving(for liberation).
He who unites his spirit to Me having subjugated all his senses, remains concentrated in Me, as the supremely desirable. The intuitive wisdom of that yogi becomes steadfast whose senses are under his sway.
The man of self-control, roaming among material objects with subjugated senses and devoid of attraction and repulsion, attains an unshakable inner calmness.
As a boat on the water is carried off course by a gale. So an individual's discrimination is driven from its intended path when the mind succumbs to the wandering senses.
But that man succeeds supremely, he who disciplining the senses by the mind, unattached, keeps his organs of activity steadfast on the path of God-uniting actions.
Because sense pleasures spring from outward contacts, and have beginning and end (are ephemeral), they are begetters only of misery. No sages seeks happiness from them.
For him whose self(ego) has been conquered by the self(soul), the self is the friend of the self; but verily the self behaves inimically, as an enemy, toward the self that is not subdued.





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