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Chapter 6
Appendix:—In fact in order to attain perfection by the discipline of meditation, restraint of the mind is not so necessary as is its purification. `Purification of the mind' means not to be attached to the sense-objects. He who has purified his mind, attains perfection by the discipline of meditation by making efforts.
Whatever the Lord said in the thirty-first verse by the expression `sarvabbiitasthitam yo mam bhajatyekatvamasthitah' in that the main obstacle is not to behold God in all beings and everywhere; and whatever the Lord declared in the thirty-second verse by the expression atmaupamyena sarvatra samam pasyati yo'rjuna'—the main obstacle is attachment and aversion. But Arjuna by an error thought the volatility of mind as an obstacle. In fact volatility of mind is `not an obstacle but not to behold God in all beings and everywhere' and 'attachment-aversion' are obstacles. So long as attachment and aversion persist, a striver can't behold God in all beings and everywhere and as long as he does not behold God in all beings and everywhere viz„ he has the assumption of any other entity besides God, the mind can't be totally restrained.
When a 'Vrtti' is restrained, it means that there is existence of the 'Vrtti'. Because we accept its existence that is why we think restraining it. In the self there is no 'Vrtti'. Therefore if we restrain the 'Vrtti' the mind will be restrained for sometime and again there will be relapse (deviation). If We don't assume any other entity besides God, then there is no question of relapse. The reason is that if there is no other entity, there is no question at all of the existence of mind even.
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