Yathora

The Gita · Chapter 6

Bhagavad Gita 6.24

सङ्कल्पप्रभवान्कामांस्त्यक्त्वा सर्वानशेषतः। मनसैवेन्द्रियग्रामं विनियम्य समन्ततः॥

saṅkalpa-prabhavān kāmāns tyaktvā sarvān aśheṣhataḥ manasaivendriya-grāmaṁ viniyamya samantataḥ

Translation

Abandoning without reserve all desires born of the imagination, by the mind curbing in the aggregate of the senses on every side,

What it means

Abandoning all desire born of imagination without remainder, curbing the whole troop of senses with the mind on every side. The imagination is named as the factory of craving. Shut the factory, and the senses retire.

Try this today

The pre-meditation sweep: desires first, senses second, before the seat does its work.

Something to reflect on

Which of my desires was manufactured by my own imagination this week?

Read it in Yathora
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Translation by Annie Besant (1905, public domain). The meanings are original to Yathora, drawn from Shankara’s commentary.