Incompetent Charioteer Leads to the Worldly
यस्त्वविज्ञानवान्भवत्यमनस्कः सदाऽशुचिः ।
न स तत्पदमाप्नोति संसारं चाधिगच्छति ॥ ७॥
yastvavijñānavānbhavatyamanaskaḥ sadā’śuciḥ .
na sa tatpadamāpnoti saṃsāraṃ cādhigacchati .. 7..
If the buddhi, being related to a distracted mind, loses its discrimination and therefore always remains impure, then the embodied soul never attains the goal, but enters into the round of births.
Commentary:
If the driver of the chariot is bereft of understanding, the goal is never reached and the chariot is hurled down. This is samsara.
When the senses move among objects as their road, they do not know which course to pursue. If a charioteer without intelligence comes to a crossroad, he does not know which way to choose. Or if the horses go amuck, we can imagine the fate of the chariot and its rider. The objects are many, though the elements which constitute them are only five. There is a tremendous excitement of the senses when they behold the colourful world of objects, because our intellect fails. We begin to see through the senses rather than through the intellect, and since the senses are diversified, we are presented a diversified world from which we do not know what to choose. Thus, without intelligence, there is restless activity. A person without self-control enters the womb of samsara.
Swami Vivekananda Says —
Yama explains, “Those who are evil-doers, whose minds area not peaceful, can never see the Light.[Source]