Shloka 6
Śarīrin, Buddhi, and the Limits of Sense-Perception (इन्द्रियबुद्धिशरीरिविचारः)
शब्दं न विन्देच्छोत्रेण स्पर्श त्वचा न वेदयेत् । रूपं न चक्षुषा विद्याज्जिह्दया न रसांस्तथा,योगको जाननेवाले समर्थ पुरुषको चाहिये कि कानोंके द्वारा शब्द न सुने, त्वचासे स्पर्शका अनुभव न करे, आँखसे रूपको न देखे और जिह्ढासे रसोंको ग्रहण न करे एवं ध्यानके द्वारा समस्त सूँघने योग्य वस्तुओंको भी त्याग दे तथा पाँचों इन्द्रियोंको मथ डालनेवाले इन विषयोंकी कभी मनसे भी इच्छा न करे
bhīṣma uvāca | śabdaṃ na vindec chotreṇa sparśaṃ tvacā na vedayet | rūpaṃ na cakṣuṣā vidyāj jihvayā na rasāṃs tathā |
Bhīṣma said: A capable practitioner who truly understands yoga should not chase sensory objects—he should not seek sound through the ear, not register touch through the skin, not apprehend form through the eye, and not grasp tastes through the tongue. Likewise, through meditative discipline he should relinquish even all objects of smell, and he should not, even in the mind, entertain desire for these sense-objects that agitate and churn the five senses. The teaching emphasizes inner restraint and the ethical mastery of desire as the basis of steadiness and liberation.
भीष्म उवाच