Let him know that to be what is called yoga, the parting from union with pain: union with pains is the union with pain, and the parting from that is the parting from union with pain; let him know that parting to be precisely what is named yoga, knowing it by its opposite mark. Having summed up the fruit of yoga, by way of a fresh start the duty of carrying out yoga is stated, in order to lay down resolve and freedom from despondency as the means of yoga. That yoga, of the fruit described, is to be carried out with resolve, with determination, with a mind not given to despondency, a mind not despondent. Further.

Let him know that severance from the union with pain, knowledge that has the form of being the contrary of the union with pain and is denoted by the word 'discipline', to be such a discipline. With a mind unwearied in the state of beginning, with a glad mind, with certainty, the discipline is to be practised.

That by which the joining with pain is sundered is the 'sundering of the joining with pain'. Not only does it destroy pain that has arisen; it wards off the very arising, as Krishna shows by the word 'joining'. 'It is to be practised with resolve' means that it simply must be practised by one who wishes to become free; that is the sense.