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So indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā (BG 2.58). One who is practiced to control his senses . . . senses are not to be stopped. They are to be used at proper time, but not at the dictation of the senses. When one comes to that standard of life, that he is not dictated by the senses but he uses senses when it is properly required . . . senses are not to be stopped. That is not prescribed.
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[[Vanisource:660415 - Lecture BG 02.58-59 - New York|660415 - Lecture BG 02.58-59 - New York]]
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So if we want to cut our prison life, then the first symptom will be to minimize this sense enjoyment or to regulate the sense enjoyment. Here the Lord says that yadā saṁharate cāyaṁ kūrmo 'ṅgānīva sarvaśaḥ. The example is given just like the tortoise. The tortoise can close up, wind up his senses as he likes. That means he becomes the master of the senses. He does not like to be the servant of the senses. So this, I mean to say, verse, we have already discussed.

So indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā ([[Vanisource:BG 2.58 (1972)|BG 2.58]]). One who is practiced to control his senses . . . senses are not to be stopped. They are to be used at proper time, but not at the dictation of the senses. When one comes to that standard of life, that he is not dictated by the senses but he uses senses when it is properly required . . . senses are not to be stopped. That is not prescribed. That is not prescribed. Somebody says that sense control means to use . . . to stop this action of the senses. No. Senses, action of the senses, cannot be stopped. Simply it has to be purified. The action of the senses has to be purified. That is the whole process.
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