The seers whose sins have been washed away, whose doubts have been dispelled by .Knowledge, whose mind is firmly established in .God and who are actively engaged in promoting the welfare of all beings, attain .Brahma, who is all .Peace.

To those wise men, who are free from l*st and anger, who have subdued their mind and have realized .God, .Brahma, the abode of eternal peace, is present all round.

Shutting out the thoughts of external sense-enjoyments, with the eyes fixed on the space between the eye-brows, having equalized the .Prana and .Apana breaths (outward and inward breaths) flowing within the nostrils, he who has brought his senses, mind and reason under control, -such a cotemplative soul intent on liberation and free from desire, fear and anger, is ever liberated.

Having known .Me in reality as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the supreme .Lord of all the worlds, and the disinterested friend of all beings, .My devotee attains peace.

He, who does his duty without expecting the fruit of actions, is a .Sannyasi (sankhyayogi) and a .Yogi (karmayogi) both. He is no .Sannyasi(renouncer) who has merely renounced the sacred fire; even so, he is no .Yogi, who has merely given up all activity.

You, what they speak of as .Sannyasa, know that to be the same as .Yoga; for none becomes a .Yogi, who has not given up thoughts of the world.

To the contemplative soul, who desires to rise to the heights of .Karmayoga (in the form of equanimity), action without motive is spoken of as the .Ladder; for the same man when he is established in .Yoga, tranquillity of mind (absence of all thoughts of the world) is spoken of as the way (to blessedness).

When a man ceases to have any attachment either for the objects of senses or for actions and has renounced all thoughts of the world, he is said to have attained .Yoga.

One should lift oneself up by one's own efforts and should not degrade oneself; for one's own self is one's friend, and one's own self is one's enemy.

One's own self is the friend of that soul by whom the lower self (viz, the mind, the senses and the body) has been conquered; on the other hand, the very self of him, who has not conquered his lower self, behaves inimically like one's own enemy.

The .Supreme .Spirit is firmly established in the knowledge of the self-controlled man whose mind is perfectly calm in the midst of pairs of opposites, such as cold and heat, joy and sorrow, and honour and ignominy.

The .Yogi whose mind is sated with .Jnana (knowledge of manifest .Divinity), who is unchangeable under all cir tances, whose senses are thoroughly subdued, and to whom a clod, a stone, and a piece of gold make no difference, is spoken of as a .God-realized soul.

He, who regards well-wishers, friends, foes, neutrals, mediators, the objects of hatred, relatives, the virtuous and the sinful alike, stands supreme.

The .yogi, who has subdued his mind and body, and who is free from desires and bereft of possessions, -living in seclusion all by himselfalone he should constantly engage his mind in meditation.

In a clean spot having firmly placed his seat with .kusa grass, a deerskin and a cloth spread thereon one below another (.kusa below, deerskin in the middle and cloth uppermost), neither very high nor very low.

And sitting on that seat, concentrating the mind and controlling the functions of the mind and the senses, he should practise .yoga for self-purification.

Keeping the trunk, head and neck straight and steady, remaining firm and looking at the tip of his nose, without looking in other directions.

Pledged to the vow of continence and fearless, keeping himself perfectly calm and with the mind thoroughly brought under control and fixed on Me, the vigilant Yogi should sit absorbed in Me.

Thus constantly applying his mind to Me, the Yogi of subdued mind attains the lasting Peace, consisting of supreme bliss, which rests in Me.

You, this Yoga is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who does not eat at all, nor for him who is given to too much sleep, nor for him who is ceaselessly awake.