DEVOTION[BHAKTI]-4.

In order to thus conquer the mind one need not run away physically from all sense objects or living beings in one's life. All that we have to do is to attend consistently to the taming of the mind. Objects [vishayas[ are helpless against a mind under control of the clear intellect. The sense organs will not dare run out into the cess-pools of sensuous gratifications, when the mind behind them is a fully disciplined and strictly cultivated one.

Therefore, instead of unnecessarily wasting our energies in regulating the world of objects and environments instead of exhausting ourselves in vain attempts at controlling the sense organs, let us attend to the mastering our mind. Say the Acharyas: "Extrovert thought [chittam] is the commander of the sense organs, and so to win all; not to win him is to win none------just as to one who is wearing shoes the whole world is covered with leather."[to be cont----------d]

By swami chinmayananda.