Meaning: As stated by the line of Yajurved34/6 — just as the charioteer of a chariot drawn by ten horses controls the horses by the reins, similarly, o men you also keep your ten senses and sense-organs under control through the mind.
You will have to resolute for that
(The ten senses and sense organs are as follows: five sensory senses viz; skin, eyes, ears, tongue and nose and five organs for carrying out the commands of the senses are the speech, hands, legs, the anus and the sex-organ)
Message: In trying to achieve the ultimate goal of spiritual salvation, our desires are the main obstacles. If we are trapped in the desires and continuously wander after gratifying them, then we will become their servants. If we think continuously about satisfying our senses, then they will inspire only the desires for obtaining the material means for satisfying them and due to that we will go on wandering in trying to fulfill the various sense desires. It all thinking about, is gradually transformed into action. Thus some intense desire manifests in our mind to enjoy something and it is seen externally in our action.
Individually we go on thinking about the senses and sense organs, mentally we want to obtain the gratification, but we also expect to save ourselves from them. Such people are hypocrites. More and more thinking about enjoyment of senses drawn us towards successive temptations and we will be attracted towards committing countless sins one after another. The uncontrollable thinking about fulfilling the wishes of the senses destroys man's restraint and sense of shame, and his conduct becomes senseless immoral and harmful to others. Such a person gets trapped into the mire of the desire for satisfying his senses.
Wise men, men with discretion must save themselves from falling into the chasm of downfall. The only solution for that is that the activities arising in our mind and encouraging the gratification of desires must be stopped. The indulgence of senses is the root cause of the evil in man. Just as we have to use many types of medicines and other means for being saved from physical diseases, similarly for our mental health and also for saving us from the disease of materialism we will have to have the strictest control of gratification of the senses.
The Sanskrit saying is "sansar deergha rogasya, suvicharo mahowshadham" i.e. this world is full of innumerable diseases. Everywhere in it, there are mountains of faults and wicked tendencies. Only good thoughts can act as medicine for getting freedom from thoughts and we should not be slaves to our senses. Just as the charioteer of a ten horse chariot controls all the ten horses by the reins and takes the chariot where he desires, similarly we too must keep the rein of the mind very strictly pulled up, so that we can exercise moral restraint over the senses. With the help of discretion and abnegation or renunciation, we must keep our mind away from material objects and make real attempt to lead the life according to our actual, realistic authority.
We will be able to achieve the best objective of this human life, only if we develop the spiritual power and firm desires to do as above.
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