Without doubt, there is no doubt, that the mind is hard to rein in and unsteady, O mighty-armed one. Yet by practice, and by dispassion, it is held. Practice is the repeated turning of the mind, on some chosen ground of the mind, to one and the same idea; dispassion is the thirstlessness that arises from the repeated seeing of fault in enjoyments wished-for, whether seen or unseen, and by that dispassion the wandering, distracting movement of the mind is held. So that mind is grasped, that is, reined in and checked. But as for him whose self is unrestrained, by him.

The Blessed Lord spoke. That the mind is hard to restrain, by its nature of moving, there is no doubt of this. Even so, by a turning-toward generated by the practice of the self's being a mine of qualities, and by a thirstlessness generated by the seeing of the being-a-mine-of-faults even of the objects other than the self, it is somehow grasped.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.