MIND : ITS MYSTERIES AND CONTROL : 18-14.2.

Path of Spirituality:-6.

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The inner and subtler forces are more powerful than the outer and grosser factors ordering our life and our world and, therefore, the Rishies  advise us first to learn to conquer, control and tame the outer equipments  of perception--the sense organs. And they are, in us, miserable slaves in their own chosen harem of enchanting objects. Remember, it is certainly excusable  if the physical sense organs seek to fulfill  themselves  in the physical objects; for there is always a natural affinity for matter towards matter. But the individual personality should not get involved in them. So long as we live identified with the sense organs, and so completely committed  to their passions, we can never  wean ourselves away from the confusing medley of our riotous sense appetites. 

In fact, the sense organs cannot function without the mind; and so, by raising the vision of the mind and engaging the mind entertainingly absorbed at a nobler alter of adoration, the sense organs can be clutched off and their dash into the fields of same objects can be slowed down. Yet, the remedy suggested here is, in fact available to the raw seeker, because the mind as such cannot be readily lifted to a greater vision unless the motive forces functioning  in it are purified and controlled.