ഇന്ദ്രിയസ്യേന്ദ്രിയസ്യാര്ഥേ രാഗദ്വേഷൌ വ്യവസ്ഥിതൌ തയോര്ന വശമാഗച്ഛേത്തൌ ഹ്യസ്യ പരിപന്ഥിനൌ
indriyasyendriyasyārthe rāgadveṣau vyavasthitau tayorna vaśamāgacchettau hyasya paripanthinau
English Translation
Attraction and repulsion are ordained with regard to the objects of all the organs. One should not come under the sway of these two, because they are his adversaries.
Explanation · English
Each sense has got attraction for a pleasant object and aversion for a disagreeable object. If one can control these two currents? viz.? attachment and aversion? he will not come under the sway of these two currents. Here lies the scope for personal exertion or Purushartha. Nature which contains the sum total of ones Samskaras or the latent selfproductive impressions of the past actions of merit and demerit draws a man to its course through the two currents? attachment and aversion. If one can control these two currents? if he can rise above the sway of love and hate through discrimination and Vichara or right eniry? he can coner Nature and attain immortality and eternal bliss. He willl no longer be subject to his own nature now. One should always exert to free himself from attachment and aversion to the objects of the senses.