यतो यतो निश्चरति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम् | ततस्ततो नियम्यैतदात्मन्येव वशं नयेत्
yato yato niścarati manaścañcalamasthiram . tatastato niyamyaitadātmanyeva vaśaṃ nayet
ಚಂಚಲ ಮತ್ತು ಅಸ್ಥಿರವಾದ ಮನಸ್ಸು ಯಾವ ಯಾವ ಕಾರಣಗಳಿಂದ ಹೊರಗೆ ಅಲೆಯುತ್ತದೆಯೋ, ಆಯಾ ಕಾರಣಗಳಿಂದ ಅದನ್ನು ನಿಯಂತ್ರಿಸಿ, ಆತ್ಮನಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ವಶಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು.
(The yogi) should bring (this mind) under the subjugation of the Self Itself, by restraining it from all those causes whatever due to which the restless, unsteady mind wanders away.
ಚಂಚಲ ಮತ್ತು ಅಸ್ಥಿರವಾದ ಮನಸ್ಸು ಯಾವೆಲ್ಲಾ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಕಡೆಗೆ ಅಲೆಯುತ್ತದೆಯೋ, ಆಯಾ ವಿಷಯಗಳಿಂದ ಅದನ್ನು ಹಿಂತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡು, ಆತ್ಮನಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಅದನ್ನು ಸ್ಥಿರವಾಗಿ ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಬೇಕು. ಮನಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಆತ್ಮನ ವಶಕ್ಕೆ ತರಲು ಇದು ಅತ್ಯಗತ್ಯ.
In this verse the Lord gives the method to control the mind. Just as you drag the bull again and again to your house when it runs out? so also you will have to drag the mind to your point or centre or Lakshya again and again when it runs towards the external objects. If you give good cotton seed extract? sugar? plantains? etc.? to the bull? it will not turn away but will remain in your house. Even so if you make the mind taste the eternal bliss of the Self within little by little by the practice of concentration? it will gradually abide in the Self only and will not run towards the external objects of the senses. Sound and the other objects only make the mind restless and unsteady. By knowing the defects of the objects of sensual pleasure? by understanding their illusory nature? by the cultivation of discrimination between the Real and the unreal and also dispassion? and by making the mind understand the glory and the splendour of the Self you can wean the mind entirely away from sensual objects and fix it firmly on the Self.