Biggest Defect of the Mind - How to Overcome it? Swami Mukundananda | Bhagavad Gita 3.33 34

Shree Krishna points out the biggest defect of the mind and how we can overcome it in these Bhagavad Gita verses. Swami Mukundananda elaborates on how not to let your mind control you. In the discharge of our worldly duty, we will have to encounter all kinds of likeable and unlikeable situations. When we stop being slaves of both the likes and dislikes of the mind and senses, we will overcome our lower nature. And when we become indifferent to both pleasure and pain in the discharge of our duty, we will become truly free to act from our higher nature.
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1:02 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 Verse 33-34 Chanting
1:43 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 Verse 33-34 Translation by Swami Mukundananda
2:29 Commentary by Swami Mukundananda - Biggest Defect of the Mind
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Shree Krishna first comes back to the point about action being superior to inaction. Propelled by their natures, people are inclined to act in accordance with their individual modes. Even those who are theoretically learned carry with them the baggage of the sanskars (tendencies and impressions) of endless past lives, the prarabdh karma of this life, and the individual traits of their minds and intellects. They find it difficult to resist this force of habit and nature. If the Vedic scriptures instructed them to give up all works and engage in pure spirituality, it would create an unstable situation. The proper and easier way for spiritual advancement is to utilize the immense force of habit and tendencies and dovetail it in the direction of God. That nature should be sublimated by shifting the goal from worldly enjoyment to God-realization, and performing our prescribed duty without attachment and aversion, in the spirit of service to God.

Although Shree Krishna previously emphasized that the mind and senses are propelled by their natural tendencies, he now opens up the possibility of harnessing them. Shree Krishna is not asking us to stop consuming what is necessary, but to practice eradicating attachment and aversion. The senses naturally run toward the sense objects and their mutual interaction creates sensations of pleasure and pain. For example, the taste buds experience joy in contact with delicious foods and distress in contact with bitter foods. The mind repeatedly contemplates the sensations of pleasure and pain which it associates with these objects. Thoughts of pleasure in the sense objects create attachment while thoughts of pain create aversion. Shree Krishna tells Arjun to succumb neither to feelings of attachment nor aversion.
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सदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्या: प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि |
प्रकृतिं यान्ति भूतानि निग्रह: किं करिष्यति || 33||
sadrisham cheshtate svasyah prakriter jnanavan api
prakritim yanti bhutani nigrahah kim karishyati
Even wise people act according to their natures, for all living beings are propelled by their natural tendencies. What will one gain by repression?
इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ |
तयोर्न वशमागच्छेत्तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ || 34||
indriyasyendriyasyarthe raga-dveshau vyavasthitau
tayor na vasham agachchhet tau hyasya paripanthinau
The senses naturally experience attachment and aversion to the sense objects, but do not be controlled by them, for they are waylayers and foes.
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