indriyāṇi

यदा संहरते चायं कूर्मोऽङ्गानीव सर्वशः

indriyāṇi — senses

And when, like a tortoise drawing in its limbs, one withdraws the senses entirely from their objects — in that person wisdom is firmly established.

यततो ह्यपि कौन्तेय पुरुषस्य विपश्चितः

indriyāṇi — the senses

Even for a person of discernment who is trying, son of Kunti, the restless senses carry the mind away by force.

तानि सर्वाणि संयम्य युक्त आसीत मत्परः

indriyāṇi — senses

Having brought them all under control, one should sit joined, intent on me. For the one whose senses are mastered, wisdom is firmly established.

तस्माद्यस्य महाबाहो निगृहीतानि सर्वशः

indriyāṇi — senses

Therefore, mighty-armed one, in whom the senses are wholly restrained from their objects, in that person wisdom is firmly established.

यस्त्विन्द्रियाणि मनसा नियम्यारभतेऽर्जुन

indriyāṇi — the senses

But one who controls the senses with the mind, Arjuna, and takes up action with the organs of action while remaining unattached — that one is better.

इन्द्रियाणि मनो बुद्धिरस्याधिष्ठानमुच्यते

indriyāṇi — the senses

The senses, the mind and the understanding are said to be its dwelling place. Through these it deludes the embodied one, clouding knowledge.

तस्मात्त्वमिन्द्रियाण्यादौ नियम्य भरतर्षभ

indriyāṇi — senses

Therefore master the senses first, best of the Bharatas, and then strike down this destroyer of knowledge and discernment.

इन्द्रियाणि पराण्याहुरिन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनः

indriyāṇi — senses

The senses are said to be greater than the body; greater than the senses is the mind; greater than the mind, the understanding; and greater than the understanding is that.

श्रोत्रादीनीन्द्रियाण्यन्ये संयमाग्निषु जुह्वति

indriyāṇi — senses

Some offer hearing and the other senses into the fire of restraint; others offer sound and the other objects of sense into the fire of the senses.

नैव किंचित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित्

indriyāṇi — the senses

One who knows the truth thinks, “I do nothing at all” — while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing,

प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि

indriyāṇi — the senses

speaking, letting go, taking hold, opening and closing the eyes — holding that it is the senses moving among their objects.

महाभूतान्यहङ्कारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च

indriyāṇi — the senses

The great elements, the sense of self, the understanding, the unmanifest, the ten senses and the one, and the five fields of the senses;

ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूतः सनातनः

indriyāṇi — senses

A fragment of my own self, eternal, becomes the living being in the world of the living, and draws to itself the six senses, the mind among them.