As a lamp set in a windless place, in a spot free of wind, does not flicker, does not move: that is the likeness recalled by the knowers of yoga, the seers of the movements of the mind, for the yogin of restrained inner instrument who, practising yoga, carries out the absorption of the Self. Thus, by the strength of the practice of yoga, the mind, become one-pointed and like a lamp in a windless place.

As a lamp set in a windless place does not flicker, does not move, but stands unmoving and shining, that is the likeness of the self's own nature, the likeness of the yogin who, with mind restrained, the workings of all the rest of the mind ceased, yokes the self in discipline upon the self. As a lamp set in a windless place is unmoving and shining, so the self, the workings of all the rest of the mind ceased, stands unmoving and shining with knowledge. This is the meaning.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

The yoga of the self, the yoga whose object is the Lord.