Krishna replies to Arjuna
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Let's honour hospital sta - too fantastic (4,3,2) Day-to-day expenses of training for marathons? (7,5) Partly separated from terrible cheat, crushed by revolting misdeed (12)
Girl abandons inhibitions finally in secluded retreat getting rubber (9)
Thousand on road in America for race (5)
Altogether fascinated by short story (2,5)
European commission ignoring England's latest issue (7)
Restrain director probing alien contraption (6)
Sad and tense about getting sanctioned (8)
Cold and cough essentially, aristocrat's isolated (3,3)
Trip over a boy's small drum (6)
Younger daughter, excited to eat hot dog (9)
Blunder to hug a male, drunk and disorderly (5-3-6) Increase in commotion about heartless despot (3,2)
Guy provided fancy set for show (8)
Wrong! Press one for answer (8)
What podiatrist might be doing without hesitation for economising (7,7)
Defeat in start of contest? Hell, team's terrible (9) Escorting woman in posh club (8)
Gave gift hamper, mainly clothes (8)
Student bunking school, throwing tantrum endlessly (6) Take o clothes finally in naughty dance (6)
Invest, it helps to save tax (5)
Solution to previous puzzle
Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku
Lord Krishna told Arjuna that the mind is the root cause of everything and must be controlled. Arjuna doubted whether it was possible to bring the mind under control because of its ckleness.
It will churn and stir the faculties, cannot be controlled by introspection, and is involved and immersed in worldly things. It is as di cult as restraining a strong wind with such things as a fragile fan.
Valayapettai Sri Ramachariar said in a discourse that Lord Krishna replied through two verses (Chapter VI slokas 35 and 36) that the mind could be controlled by constant practice of yoga and by detachment and desires (Abhyasam and Vairagyam).
Arjuna raised the question of what would happen to a person who discontinued yoga after starting the practice. What way does he go? Does he not perish like a small piece of cloud riven from a large mass of cloud without reaching another mass? Has he not lost his way, who has just begun to traverse the path leading to Brahman?
Sri Krishna replied to Arjuna that any good deed undertaken by a person will not fail to yield benets. He who has drifted away from yoga practice will, after enjoying the benets of swarga loka, be born into a family of pure who practice yoga.