The necessity to control the senses!
When we allow the senses freely to run towards the objects of the senses then the temptation and desire to posses and enjoy them is easily born within us.
Depending on the circumstances we can fulfill it immediately or it will remain latent in the subconscious mind to be fulfilled in the future.
In both cases our minds become more conditioned and limited by this desire.
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Extracts from Bhagavad Gita
21. With the mind unattached to the external contacts he discovers happiness in the Self (Atman); with the mind and buddhi engaged in the meditation of Brahman *he attains to the endless happiness."
22. The enjoyments that are born of contacts are generators of pain only, for they have a beginning and an end, O Arjuna! The wise do not rejoice in them.
23. He who is able, while still here in this world to withstand, before the liberation from the body, the impulse born of desire and anger—he is a Yogi, he is a happy man.
24. He who is ever happy within, who rejoices within, who is illumined within, such a Yogi attains absolute freedom (Moksha), himself becoming Brahman.
25. The sages obtain absolute freedom (Moksha), they whose sins have been destroyed, whose dualities (perception of dualities or experience of the pairs of opposites) are torn asunder, who are self-controlled, and intent on the welfare of all beings.
26. Absolute freedom (or Brahmic bliss) exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics who are free from desire and anger, who have controlled their thoughts and who have realised the Self.
27. Shutting out(all) external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, equalising the outgoing and incoming breaths moving within the nostrils,
28. With the senses, the mind and the intellect always controlled, having liberation as his supreme goal, free from desire, fear and anger—the sage is verily liberated for ever.
29. He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the worlds and the friend of all beings, attains to peace.
Hari Om Tat Sat
Thus in the Upanishads of the glorious Bhagavad Gita,
the science of the Eternal, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna ends the fifth discourse entitled:
“The Yoga of Renunciation of Action”
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