श्रीभगवानुवाच | असंशयं महाबाहो मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलम् | अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते
śrībhagavānuvāca . asaṃśayaṃ mahābāho mano durnigrahaṃ calam . abhyāsena tu kaunteya vairāgyeṇa ca gṛhyate
世尊说：哦，大臂者啊，毫无疑问，心是难以驾驭且动荡不安的。但是，哦，贡蒂（Kunti）之子啊，它可以通过练习和离欲来加以控制。
The Blessed Lord said O mighty-armed one, undoubtedly the mind is untractable and restless. But, O son of Kunti, it is brought under control through practice and detachment.
通过持续冥想目标（Lakshya，即中心、理想、目标或冥想对象）来保持游荡的心神稳定，这就是练习（Abhyasa）。对自我（Self）或神的相同理念或思想被不断重复。这种持续的重复摧毁了心的动摇和欲望（Vikshepa），使其稳定并专注于一点。离欲（Vairagya）是对今生或来世、此处或彼处、可见或不可见、可闻或不可闻的感官对象的不动心或漠不关心，通过不断审视它们内在的邪恶（DoshaDrishti）而获得。你必须通过不断反思不朽、充满至福的自我（Self）来训练心。你必须让心认识到世俗享乐的短暂性。你必须引导心，让它不在易逝和变化的外部对象中寻找享乐，而是在内在不朽、不变的自我（Self）中寻找。心将逐渐从外部对象中撤回。
The constant or repeated effort to keep the wandering mind steady by constant meditation on the Lakshya (centre? ideal? goal or object of meditation) is Abhyasa or practice. The same idea or thought of the Self or God is constantly repeated. This constant repetition destroys Vikshepa or the vacillation of the mind and desires? and makes it steady and onepointed.Vairagya is dispassion or indifference to senseobjects in this world or in the other? here or hereafter? seen or unseen? heard or unheard? achieved through constantly looking into the evil in them (DoshaDrishti). You will have to train the mind by constant reflection on the immortal? allblissful Self. You must make the mind realise the transitory nature of the wordly enjoyments. You must suggest to the mind to look for its enjoyment not in the perishable and changing external objects but in the immortal? changeless Self within. Gradually the mind will be withdrawn from the external objects.