43. Having seen a shape with the eye, heard a sound with the ear, smelt a smell with the nose, savored a taste with the tongue, felt a touch with the body or cognized a thought with the mind, one is not entranced by its general appearance or its detail. For if one lived with the sense organs uncontrolled, attraction, repulsion and evil unskilled states of mind would grow. So, one controls the sense organs, and having this noble control of the sense organs, one experiences the happiness of being unruffled.
M.I,346 (MN 51)
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