इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ ।तयोर्न वशमागच्छेत् तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ ॥
indriyasyendriyasyārthe rāgadveṣau vyavasthitautayorna vaśamāgacchet tau hyasya paripanthinau
In the object of this or that sense liking and disliking are set in ambush; fall not into their power, for they are the besetters of the soul in its path.
Gītā 3·34There is a distinction implied too between coercion and suppression, nigraha, and control with right use and right guidance, sāṁmyam The former is a violence done to the nature by the will, which in the end depresses the natural powers of the being, ātmanam avasādayet; the latter is the control of the lower by the higher self, which successfully gives to those powers their right action and their maximum efficiency.
