Radhanath Swami on Chariot of the body

In the Holy Scriptures, it is explained that the human body is a chariot. There are five horses representing the five senses that are pulling this chariot. The rope represents mind, because mind is meant to control the senses.

The driver holding the ropes is the human intelligence, which is meant to direct the mind.  So, if the mind is controlled not by intelligence but by senses (the horses), then we’re in a very dangerous situation. But if the good intelligence controls the senses through the mind on the basis of the true needs of the passenger—the spirit soul—then we would travel to our true destination in life. And what is that destination?  The spiritual world.

-Radhanath Swami