59. Though the embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, the taste for the sense objects remains. But refraining from such engagements by experiencing a higher taste he is fixed in consciousness.
Significance:
A neophyte yogi, a karma yogi, may still have some attachment to eating meat but he refrains from doing it because there is the higher taste for spiritual life. However, that taste may be quite bitter in the early innings of his spiritual life. That is also why such a yogi may have temporary setbacks. Admitting his level, or in other words, be honest about it, a karma yogi can continue to purify his existence.
60. The senses are so strong and impetuous, O Arjuna, that they may forcibly carry away the mind of a man of discrimination who is endeavoring to control them.
Significance:
To reach total perfection of existence one has to have sincerity of purpose. Therefore one has to be willing to develop the qualities of goodness, as mentioned in Bhagavad-Gita 18.42. They are the gateway to pure goodness, brahma-nirvana, when one adds yoga to it all. This make take some time, but what is there to lose, besides useless material existence? So better swallow the bitter pill to gradually enjoy more and more actual freedom, actual knowledge, lasting happiness.
61. The person who restrains his senses, keeping them under full control, and fixes his consciousness upon Me, is known to be a man of steady intelligence.
Significance:
To keep the senses under control one has to have a higher goal in life. That higher goal is the Absolute Truth. When one prefers to be a slave of his senses one lives in the world of illusion every other day. Such a person does not understand anything about the purpose of the world, nor how the material world is being perfectly organised by God’s infallible law of karma. In Bhagavad Gita 3.27 it is stated: “The conditioned soul, bewildered by the influence of false ego, considers himself the doer of activities that are actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature”. So the bewildered soul misidentifies and has false claims because of his delusional state of consciousness.
62-63. While contemplating the objects of the senses a person develops attachment for them, from this attachment lust develops, from lust anger pops up. From anger complete delusion develops and from complete delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered intelligence is lost and one again falls into the material pool.
Significance:
One has to reach the object of the one sense, which is also known as the fixed in Brahman mind. That Brahman, which is called the total material substance, is being explained in Bhagavad Gita 14.3: "The total material substance called Brahman is the source of birth and it is that Brahman I impregnate making possible the births of all beings".
64. One who has reached equanimity within the Supreme is in knowledge of the Supreme and can have the full mercy of the Supreme.
Significance:
God’s mercy, God’s undeserved gift, is constantly there. By quitting false ego one becomes aware of it. People who like to be God themselves and who try to absolute their moral principles instead of utilising moral principles for purification of existence will never ever realise the Absolute Truth. They very vainly try to be the big judges of the world, be the overlords of the world. And thereby they remain illusioned day after day, being imprisioned by God's maya shakti, the actual overlord.