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Music, cinema, sight-seeing is enjoyed in human births only. Ants and rats do not enjoy cinema-show. The Indriya of sight is not as powerful as the tongue.

The organ of sight serves as a loving comrade to the organ of taste. The mind is at once tickled at the sight of a yellow colour of the mango. The eyes see a beautiful mango and the different dishes that are served on the table. At once, the glosso-pharyngeal nerves are stimulated. You get good appetite and relish. The food is rendered more palatable. A blind man may not have as good a relish as a man with sharp sight has.

Control of Indriyas: There are six ways of controlling the Indriyas

1 through Vichara,

2 by will-force,

3 by Kumbhaka (retention of breath in Pranayam),

4 by Dama (restraint),

5 by Pratyahara (abstention) and

6 by Vairagya and Tyaga.

Perfect control can be made only through Vichara.

Dama - Dama is restraint of the Indriyas. Dama blunts the Indriyas. Perfect control of the senses is not possible through Dama alone. If the senses are very sharp and acute, they carry away the minds of even good sadhakas impetuously, just as the gale carries away the ship in stormy weather (Bhagwad Geeta, ssss1, Verse 67). They can be controlled perfectly through the help of the mind, through Vichara.