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Verse 2·58

Even the wise occasionally face temptation

TopicsJñāna Yoga — Path of KnowledgeIndriya — The SensesTeaching arc · Portrait of Sthitaprajña

Verse

यदा संहरते चायं कूर्मोऽंगानीव सर्वशः ।इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेऽभ्यस् तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ॥

Who draws away the senses from the objects of sense, as the tortoise draws in his limbs into the shell, his intelligence sits firmly founded in wisdom.

Gītā 2·58

From The Experiential Architecture · After Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita · incarnateword.in