Verse 6.33-34

Verse 6.33: Arjuna spake: “This Yoga of evenness of temper that, O Slayer of Madhu, thou hast declared; for it, in consequence of the unsteadiness (of the mind), I see no stable standing.

Verse 6.34: “For, unsteady, O Krishna, is the mind, impetuous, powerful and obdurate; its control 1 deem very hard to achieve, like that of the wind.” (411)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Thereon Arjuna said, “Oh Lord, you have been talking this out of mercy to us: but the mind is naturally such, that we fall too short of this great truth. If we just consider (ponder over it), we are unable to fathom the nature or the compass of it (the mind). Even all the three worlds are found to be too limited for it to move about. How then to bring the mind under control? Could a monkey ever remain quiet? Could the stormy wind be ever tranquil? The mind that torments the intellect, makes our determination unsteady, and gives a slip to courage, makes right-thinking to get deluded, brings stigma to the contentment in the form of desires, makes one wander in all directions, even though inclined to sit quiet, which forcibly rushes out if curbed, and any attempt to restrain it becomes only the cause to increase its vigour—such a thing, the mind—how could it change its fickle nature? It, therefore, seldom happens that one’s mind becomes first steady and then one attains evenness of temper.