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Chapter 6<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 6 verse 5<\/a><\/p>\n Simple<\/a><\/p>\n bandhur \u0101tm\u0101tmanas tasya ‘The mind is friend to him (\u0101tma) who has himself conquered it. But to him who has not conquered mind, it assumes an inimical attitude.’<\/span><\/p>\n The mind is friendly to him who restrains it from flowing outward to (sense-)objects; but if one has not so subdued the mind, it militates against him as his enemy. The meaning is, that the unsubdued or ungoverned mind interposes obstacles in the way of attaining Supreme Bliss.<\/span><\/p>\n So declares Bhagav\u0101n Par\u0101\u015bara:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018To men, their mind alone is the cause of bondage as well as emancipation. The mind addicted to sense-objects, constitutes bondage, the mind when destitute thereof, constitutes freedom\u2019[1. \u2018Mana eva manushy\u0101\u1e47\u0101m k\u0101ra-\u1e47am bandha mokshayo\u1e25, etc.’ Vish: P.<\/em> VI-7-28; also see Am\u1e5bita-bind-Upanishad, beginning; Manu<\/em>, VIII-84; Bh\u0101gavata<\/em>, III-25-15 and XI-8-41., Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata<\/em>, Sanat-suj\u0101t\u012bya, 15. &c. &c.].<\/span><\/p>\n The preliminary competency to be acquired before commencing yoga (meditation) is now stated:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 6 verse 7<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 6 << Chapter 6 verse 5 Simple bandhur \u0101tm\u0101tmanas tasya yen\u0101tmaiv\u0101tman\u0101 jita\u1e25 an\u0101tmanas tu \u015batrutve vartet\u0101tmaiva \u015batru-vat ‘The mind is friend to him (\u0101tma) who has himself conquered it. But to him who has not conquered mind, it assumes an inimical attitude.’ The mind … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-6","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nyen\u0101tmaiv\u0101tman\u0101 jita\u1e25
\nan\u0101tmanas tu \u015batrutve
\nvartet\u0101tmaiva \u015batru-vat<\/p>\n
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