Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 73

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-2 Sankhya Yogaḥ

indriyāṇāṁ hi caratāṁ yan mano’nuvidhīyate | tad asya harati prajñāṁ vāyur nāvam ivāṁbhasi || 67 || 67. For, when the mind follows the senses — experiencing their objects, the understanding is carried away by them as the wind carries away a ship on the waters. Commentary The mind, which is allowed to be accommodating, loses its inclination towards the realisation of the pure ātman — it succumbs to the temptation of the sense-objects. Just as a contrary wind forcibly carries away a ship at sea — in the same manner enlightenment also is carried away from such a mind.