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The mind though steadily fixed, quickly loses its balance through the force of Rajas; but a wakeful student in the practice of Yoga, controls it by right efforts.
Mind is the foremost of all fickle things. To control it, being the most difficult thing, requires a very keen effort. For this purpose one should be assiduous.
The high-souled one, who after having properly practised the Karma-Yoga, develops the sublime sense of equality, is always in. different (to the world ) and so is not affected. by his actions.
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The dispassionate one, who does neither take delight in the attainment of a cherished object nor does he feel sorrow on getting what is unpleasant, and who has enslaved all his senses, is said to have reached Yogihood.
