How to control the senses?

Controlling all of them (referring to the senses), one should remain concentrated on me as the supreme. For, the wisdom of one whose organs are under control becomes steadfast.

~ Shrimad Bhagwad Gita Chapter 2, Verse 61.

Following is a excerpt from the ‘Online courses on scriptures’ with Acharya Prashant.

Question: What is meant by controlling the senses? Is it related to Yam-Niyam of the Patanjali Yogsutra or is there any other way? Please guide.

Acharya Prashant: The answers is contained very directly very obviously in the verse itself. The verse is, “Controlling the senses, one should remain concentrated on me as a supreme.” The two parts of this sentence are just a reiteration of the same thing. Controlling the sense and remaining concentrated on me meaning the truth or Krishna are one and the same thing.

The Indic scriptures use the method of repetition greatly and with great effect too. The same thing is repeated a thousand times. In sometimes slightly different ways, in sometimes highly different ways. But they rely a lot on repetition, same thing is happening here as well.