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Manusmriti: The Laws of Manu |
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91. Five of them, the ear and the rest
according to their order, they call organs of sense, and five of them, the anus and the rest, organs of action.
92. Know that the internal organ (manas) is the eleventh, which by its quality belongs to both (sets); when that has been subdued, both those sets of five have been conquered. 93. Through the attachment of his organs (to sensual pleasure) a man doubtlessly will incur guilt; but if he keep them under complete control, he will obtain success (in gaining all his aims). 94. Desire is never extinguished by the enjoyment of desired objects; it only grows stronger like afire (fed) with clarified butter. 95. If one man should obtain all those (sensual enjoyments) and another should renounce them all, the renunciation of all pleasure is far better than the attainment of them. 96. Those (organs) which are strongly attached to sensual pleasures, cannot so 3ectually be restrained by abstinence (from enjoyments) as by a constant (pursuit of true) knowledge. 97. Neither (the study of) the Vedas, nor liberality, nor sacrifices, nor any (self-imposed) restraint, nor austerities, ever procure the attainment (of rewards) to a man whose heart is contaminated (by sensuality). 98. That man may be considered to have (re ally) subdued his organs, who on hearing and touching and seeing, on tasting and smelling (anything) neither rejoices nor repines. 99. But when one among all the organs slips away (from control), thereby (man's) wisdom slips away from him, even as the water (flows) through the one (open) foot of a (water-carrier's) skin. 100. If he keeps all the (ten) organs as well as the mind in subjection, he may gain all his aims, without reducing his body by (the practice) of Yoga.
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