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Why one is miserable when one knows that self soul is transcendental and this situation can be felt at every moment of life in a human body because of two beautiful blessings in this body i.e. intellect and mind. No situation is miserable it is the mind which feels miserable or happy.

When Lord Krishna told Arjun that it is the Yoga of seeing sameness that makes one feel sameness for all the situation whether happiness or distress.

Arjun was not satisfied and he retorted with a question in chapter six of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:

Arjun uvach

yoayam       yogastvaya proktah samyain madhusudan  I

etasyaaham na pashyami chanchaltwatsthitiam sithram II

chanchalam hi manah krishan pamathi balvaddrirham   I

tasyaaham nigraham manye vayuriv sudushkaram   II (6.33-34 )

Arjun says: Krishna, Yoga of equability as enunciated by you, I don’t find its stability due restless of mind.

Krishna! Mind is very unstable, unsteady, turbulent, tenacious and powerful; therefore I consider its control is as difficult as that of wind.

Yoga of sameness in all beings is very difficult because of mind which is attached to sense objects having enormous multiplicity. Beings of different nature are not only different in forms, nature and embodiments but due to quantum of attachment with nature, the two forms of same species have different nature and behavior.

Even sons and daughters of same parents have different nature.

Seeing sameness in such diversity is not an ordinary feat.

This is natural question of Arjun representing individual self soul of all embodiments particularly that of human form.

How one can see oneness in such a huge and incompatible diversity.

Mind is the creator of all attachments with the worldly objects and it is the mind which can get rid of this attachment.

It is a feeling which causes an attachment as well as detachment.

Objects themselves do not cause an attachment.

Mind thinks a particular relationship with particular object and attached to it by dint of his feeling of mine.

A boy sees many girls before his marriage but like other girls the girl to whom is married, there is no difference of their form of their respective embodiment but boy’s mind is attached to this girl as being his wife and this attachment father multiplies by spring off in form of sons and daughters and so on. 

The circle of attachment increases day by day.  

How to get rid of this vicious circle?

The question is very important

Lord Krishna answers these important questions in next two verses.

Shri Bhagwan uvach

Ashanshayam mahabaho manoh dunigraham chalam I

Abhayasen tu kontey veragayerh ch           grihiyate   II

Asanyatatma       yogo      dushprap   iti  mey   matti  I

Vashayaatmana tu  yatata shakayoavaptum upayatah II (6.35=36)

 Lord Krishna says: The mind is restless, no doubt, and also difficult to curb Arjun! But oh son of Kunti; it can be brought under control by practice and by exercise of dispassion

Yoga is difficult to achieve if one’s mind is not subdued, however whose mind is under control and one who ceaselessly strives to achieve it, it can be attained by practice, this is my conviction.

Control of mind is prime attainment.

It can be controlled by practice.

When the mind, in the act of being concentrated, begins to wander and is unsteady, then one being alert should bring it under his control by persuasion and conciliatory move like a rider bringing his horse under control by    keeping reins of unruly horse tight in his hands.

In the process breaker of a horse has not only to reigns of horse in his hands tight but he has to verily run with the horse to some extent to control horse’ speed and also to save him from fall.

No doubt mind is the most unruly, but this is to be brought under control by persuasion, dissuasion, practice, by conciliatory moves

Practice of meditation is best medicine for mind to subdue it.

Attachment unto Lord Krishna instead of world diverts mind from transient material world to Lord Krishna.

Other ways to control and subdue mind are difficult and some time end earlier.

Yoga of sameness can be attained by self restrained mind. This is restraint from worldly and sense objects and their appurtenants.

Only person of subdued mind can attain this yoga,

This is the final verdict of Lord Krishna.

It is the false ego of material body identification which causes the mind to roam in material contemplation. The thoughts which mind is experiencing are not today creation but they have been stored in mind since the time immemorial. Let the mind play with them. You are simply onlooker consciousness.

You are actually eternal spirit soul servitor of Supreme Self

Your sojourn in material existence is for one purpose is to realize yourself and connect yourself with all pervading Supreme Person Lord Krishna.

You are as beautiful and supreme as that of your origin but you have dipped your self in material filth. You are required to attain your real form by washing your self with soap of devotion. This may lead you to your home where there is no material dirt.

Every one of us exists, that is why we are here. If we attach to material world by identification with material qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance we shall again go for transmigration.