Prabhupada says one who is not able to control mind is animal but in Gita Arjuna says that he cannot control mind. Please explain

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question prabhupada says that one who cannot control his mind is an animal whereas in gita arjuna says that he cannot control his mind please explain answer there are levels of mind control and when arjuna says that he cannot control the mind he is talking that from the perspective of focusing the mind on the absolute truth and thereby learning to see all things equally, all people equally if we look at context, arjuna asked this question in 6.33 and before that, krishna has told arjuna that one should see all living beings equally in 6.33 arjuna is asking yoga is and and before that krishna has said that in 6.32 krishna says so by controlling one’s mind one should come to a level where one can see all living things equally, all living beings like oneself so that is a tall order and arjuna’s question is i philosophically accept that yudhishthira and duryodhana are all souls and they are ultimately pure they are all parts of you but i cannot see them equally yudhishthira is so virtuous and duryodhana is so vicious so it is from that point of view that arjuna is saying that i cannot control my mind arjuna in fact had so much control of the mind and senses that in the heavenly planet when urvashi proposed to him urvashi offered herself to him with no strings attached arjuna refused to succumb to the temptation because he said i consider you to be like a mother you were united with kururava who was my ancestor and therefore you are a lady in my ancestral tradition i see you as a mother so what man can do that and even when urvashi tried to bejewel him further by saying that this worldly human morality doesn’t apply to the swatha still arjuna remained adamant he said you may be a heavenly resident but i am a human resident i am a resident of the matriloka so i have to follow morality so surely arjuna had control over the mind substantially but from the point of your transcendence of seeing all the meanings equally arjuna is saying i did not have so much control over the mind whereas when shiva prabhupada says that one who cannot control the mind is an animal actually the more precise statement is one who cannot control the senses is an animal what prabhupada says and then he is talking about a person engaging in wanton animalistic activities eating anything without discrimination mating with anyone without any discrimination and that is the way animals live so shiva prabhupada is saying that that kind of indulgence which is based on utter lack of discrimination and just living indiscriminately the way the animals do so that level of lack of sense control is animalistic so the two statements about lack of self control are in entirely different context arjuna’s is in the context of comparison with the yogic perfection of seeing everyone equally whereas prabhupada’s statement is in the contemporary context where people consider it fashionable to eat anything and to mate with anyone and thereby listen to the animal pattern