The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

LXXII, 7. SELF-RESTRAINT. 231
though he does not possess any external marks of
prosperity.
LXXII.
1. He must persist in keeping his mind and his
organs of sense under restraint.
2. Restraint of the mind implies restraint of the
senses.
3. One who has acquired complete command
over himself, gains this world and the next.
4. One who has no command over himself, reaps
no fruit from any of his acts (whether worldly or
tending to the acquisition of spiritual merit).
5. Self-restraint is the best instrument of purifica-
tion ; self-restraint is the best of auspicious objects;
by self-restraint he obtains anything he may desire
in his heart.
6. The man who rides (as it were) in a chariot
drawn by his five senses and directed by his mind
(as the charioteer), who keeps it on the path of the
virtuous, can never be overcome by his enemies
(lust, wrath, and greed), unless the horses (unre-
strained by the charioteer) run away with the
chariot.
7. As the waters (of all streams) are stored up
(and reabsorbed) in the ocean, which, though being
filled with them, remains unmoved and tranquil,
even so that man, in whose mind the passions are
stored up (and dissolved), obtains perfect calmness :
but not he who strives after the gratification of his
desires.
LXXII. 7 =Bhagavad-gita II, 70. This chapter treats of duties
which are common to all the four orders. (Nand.)