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Originally Posted by cognition
The sense objects are the roads. It is the sense objects from which we have to restrain the mind and the senses.
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The Bhagavad Gita also warns about the turbulent nature of the senses and sense-objects which can overpower even seemingly wise men.
It is our own cravings for sensory pleasure and aversion for pain that may overcome our sense of judgement, duty, state of awareness and leads us to unconscious activities.
All vices are but intense desires of cravings or aversion manifesting as lust, hatred, greed and other character defects.
Through sadhana (spiritual practice) and austerities, we can reduce the turbulence of the mind and senses, and ensure mastery over them rather than being servile to their whims and fancies.