"When the mind constantly runs
after the wandering senses,
it drives away wisdom, like the wind
blowing a ship off course". (59)
To me this quote can have different interpretations. Some people can relate to this when they can't focus and the mind just wanders off from what one is suppose to be doing at that moment. Others might think that this quote means that when you are unsure about making a decision you end up making a decision that is not what you originally wanted to do because you over thought it.
This speaks to me because I personally have a difficult time with making decisions. Decisions as little as what to eat for dinner, to which college I want to apply to early. These race around my head and I tell myself that there are negative reasons for every decision. The path that I sometimes tell myself I want to take, gets disturbed by everything that is going on in every day life. Just like in the Gita is says that the wind blows the ship off the course, I think every person sometime in their life gets blown off course, and this is a hurtle that everybody has to deal with and find out how to get back on the path that they started for themselves in the beginning.
I can really relate to getting off track when trying to make a decision. From the one thing comes a million other things to worry about that distract from the original decision. Sometimes it is really hard to stay focused on the matter at hand because there is so much going on in our lives.
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