Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 22-3. Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================== ========================================================================= Saturday, July 02, 2022. 05:00 Chapter 22: The Integration of Sannyasa and Yoga - 3. ========================================================================= Again the Kathopanishad has a similar passage making out the same meaning in another context. Yacched vāṅ manasī prājñas tad yacchej jñāna-ātmani jñānam ātmani mahati niyacchet, tad yacchec chāntav-ātmani (Katha 1.3.13). Yoga is summed up in this one verse of the Kathopanishad. The senses have to be rooted in the mind. Yacched vāṅ manasī prājñas: An intelligent person should stabilise all the actions and activities of the senses in the mind itself so that the mind acts, but not the senses. But how will the mind act? Will it think of some object outside? No. Tad yacchej jñāna-ātmani: That restrained mind, enhanced in its potency by the withdrawal of the sense organs, should be root...