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From the Katha Upanishad, Part 3, Verse 3 to 9.

3 Know the Self as lord of the chariot, The body as the chariot itself, The discriminating intellect as The charioteer, and the mind as reins. 4 The senses, say the wise, are the horses; Selfish desires are the roads they travel. When the Self is confused with the body, Mind, and senses, they point out, he seems To enjoy pleasure and suffer sorrow.

5 When a person lacks discrimination And his mind if undisciplined, the senses Run hither and thither like wild horses. 6 But they obey the rein like trained horses When one has discrimination and Has made the mind one-pointed. 7 Those who lack Discrimination, with little control Over their thoughts and far from pure, Reach not the pure state of immortality But wander from death to death; 8 but those Who have discrimination, with a still mind And a pure heart, reach journey's end, Never again to fall into the jaws of death. 9 With a discriminating intellect As charioteer and a trained mind as reins, They attain the supreme goal of life, To be united with the Lord of Love.