Dedicated to my spiritual master His Divine Grace Abhaya Charan Bhaktivedanta Swami 'Srila Prabhupada'
Introduction
yada samharate cayam
kurmo 'nganiva sarvasah
indriyanindriyarthebhyas
tasya prajna pratisthita
Bg 2.58
One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the
tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is firmly fixed in perfect
consciousness.
Test of a yogi
The test of a yogi, devotee, or
self-realized soul is that he is able to control the senses according to his
plan. Most people, however, are servants of the senses and are thus directed by
the dictation of the senses. That is the answer to the question as to how the
yogi is situated.
The senses are compared to venomous serpents. They want to
act very loosely and without restriction. The yogi, or the devotee, must be
very strong to control the serpents -- like a snake charmer. He never allows
them to act independently. There are many injunctions in the revealed
scriptures; some of them are do-not's, and some of them are do's. Unless one is
able to follow the do's and the do-not's, restricting oneself from sense
enjoyment, it is not possible to be firmly fixed in Krishna consciousness. The
best example, set herein, is the tortoise. The tortoise can at any moment wind
up its senses and exhibit them again at any time for particular purposes.
Similarly, the senses of the Krishna conscious persons are used only for some
particular purpose in the service of the Lord and are withdrawn otherwise.
Arjuna is being taught here to use his senses for the service of the Lord,
instead of for his own satisfaction.
Conclusion
Keeping the senses always in the service
of the Lord is the example set by the analogy of the tortoise, who keeps the
senses within.
Ys in service of Srila Prabhupada
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