How do you control lust?

Overcoming Sexual Thoughts

This picture is from Ramanand Sagar’s TV serial Shri Krishna.

I have studied the Gita as said by Shri Krishna, and I have understood that:

It is essential to overcome the desires because even after they are fulfilled, a person grows old, but the desires generated by attachment never grow old. One desire gives birth to many desires, and along with every desire, the person’s thirst also increases. And as thirst increases, dissatisfaction also increases, and then he no longer has discretion as to what is right and wrong.

Now the question is: What is most important??

The intellect can be stabilized only by being free from both hope and despair. If the intellect is stabilized, then the power of the objects of the senses will be broken.

It's important to remember that being attached to our senses can be more dangerous than being attached to the senses themselves. And simply controlling our senses is not enough to give up this attachment. True detachment from attachment can only be achieved by controlling the mind. When the mind becomes detached, the senses can engage with their objects without affecting us, just like a lotus flower that remains dry even when it's in water, with not a single drop staying on its petals.

That's why we all should stabilize the intellect through knowledge; the intellect will stabilize the mind, and then the mind will pull the senses away from such objects, just as a tortoise withdraws its limbs within itself at the slightest sound of danger.