It is like a tortoise extends its limbs when needed and then withdraws its limbs into the shell in the same way. It is vastly different from a materialist’s list. Materialists have elliptical sensors; they are unable to get them back. They have no control when the eyes want to watch something. If the tongue wants to taste something or to say something, they cannot resist. They are unable to prevent the cravings of the belly and genitals. They get carried away. But a devotee adheres to the dos and don’ts very well. You do not have to fast, but the dos and don’ts are very important for a spiritual life without regulating the senses, nobody can advance. So, be noted here that to stop the activities of the senses, as it is advocated in the ‘Stang Yoga’, is not the recommended way. Rather, all the activities of the senses should be stopped firmly. The music of a dust devil has only plenty of dust and sounds so all sounds you have a stop and close your eyes you have to not get deviated by any of the material sounds they have to stop even eating and drinking and sometimes the ants they build hill on the body of a Yogi. Sometimes insects eat out of all the flesh, as happened with Hiranyakashipu, Valmiki, and so many sages, they cannot move, they cannot eat, they cannot drink. You simply need to be there. All physical pleasure is cancelled. This is prescribed for the devotees, for ordinary men who are non-devotees.

            But to those who are getting some positive knowledge about God, they have a different type of recommendation of the yoga system, and that is what Krishna is recommending to all of us through Arjuna. Do not halt the activities of the senses. Similar to a class, when the student is misbehaving, he might be asked for pin-drop silence, no need to speak anything, but a student who is a wise guy. The teacher encourages him to go and give a speech. So, for idiots, they are told, ‘hands up’, punishment is handed down or kneel down. However, a person who has some skills, he shall be told, ‘go and perform on stage.’ So, thus, different yoga processes are suited for different people. Thus, when good and bad knowledge of God and how to serve God, and there is no knowledge, such processes are indeed recommended. Stop wrong materialistic actions, which always lead you to mental and material distress. Do not eat or sleep and sit in one spot.

            However, those individuals among them who have good knowledge, they are supposed to act like a tortoise, spread your limbs from your body in the virtue of God and for individual entertainment. No, do not indulge. Yeah, this gives up 80 percent control of the senses, so pull your limbs back. Just like a tortoise. But it is not so easy. I am addicted to a lot of things. Even I fail to master my senses on little things like not allowing tea, coffee, smoking, or binge-forwarding some videos, then how about not practicing such a percent of control? Yoke my senses only, when necessary, this is what is described here in the next verse.