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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 1]
Menakā. History has already recorded it. The mind, although ceasing to think of sensual activities at present, remembers past sensual activities from the subconscious status and thus disturbs one from cent per cent engagement in self-realization. Therefore, Śukadeva Gosvāmī recommends the next step of assured policy, namely to fix one's mind in the service of the Personality of Godhead. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, also recommends this direct process in the  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 6.47). Thus, the mind being spiritually cleansed, one should at once engage himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord by the different devotional activities of hearing, chanting, etc. That is the surest path of progress even for the disturbed mind, if performed under proper guidance.
TEXT 19
तत्रैकावयवं ध्यायेदन्युच्छिन्नेन चेतसा । मनो निर्विषयं युक्त्वा ततः किञ्चन न स्मरेत् । पदं तत्परमं विष्णोर्मनो यत्र प्रसीदति ॥१९॥
tatraikāvayavam dhyāyed avyucchinnena cetasā mano nirviṣayam yuktvā tataḥ kiñcana na smaret padam tat paramam viṣṇor mano yatra prasīdati
tatra —thereafter;  eka —one after one;  avayavam —limbs of the body;  dhyāyet —should be concentrated upon;  avyucchinnena —without being deviated from the complete form;  cetasā —by the mind;  manaḥ —mind;  nirviṣayam —without being contaminated by sense objects;  yuktvā —being dovetailed;  tataḥ —after that;  kiñcana —anything;  na —do not;  smaret —think of;  padam —personality;  tat —that;  paramam —Supreme;  viṣṇoḥ —of Viṣṇu;  manaḥ —the mind;  yatra —whereupon;  prasīdati —becomes reconciled.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter, you should meditate upon the limbs of Viṣṇu, one after another, without being deviated from the conception of the complete