Having restrained all the gates, all of those that are the gates of perception, and having checked the mind in the heart, in the lotus of the heart, brought it to a halt so that it ranges no further; then, with the mind so mastered, having risen upward from the heart by the upward-going channel and lodged the breath in the head, fixing his own breath there, he sets out to hold the yogic concentration. And holding it there.

Restraining all the senses, the ear and the rest, which are the doors of knowledge, turning them back from their workings, and confining the mind on Me, the imperishable, seated in the lotus of the heart, settled in the holding called discipline, settled in an unmoving standing in Me alone; uttering the single syllable 'Om', the Brahman that denotes Me, and remembering Me, the one denoted; placing his own breath in the head and giving up the body; whoever departs so, he goes to the supreme goal, attains the self freed of matter, of a form like Mine, from which there is no return. This is the meaning; for it will be said right after, 'he who, when all beings perish, does not perish, called the unmanifest, the imperishable, Him they call the supreme goal'. Thus has been told the manner of the worship of the Blessed One, for the seeker of lordship and for the seeker of aloneness, conforming to what each is to attain. Now the Lord states the manner of the man of knowledge's worship of the Blessed One, and the bringer-to-the-attainment.

If, without the channel of Brahman, one goes elsewhere, then one reaches another place without release; hence 'restraining all the gates', and 'going out, with the eye toward the sun, the directions with the ear', and the like, in the Vyasa-yoga and the Moksha-dharma. 'In the heart' (hrdi) means in Narayana, for the Padma says, 'because the world is borne up by you, you are spoken of thus as hrid'. For while the breath stands in the head, no standing of the mind in the heart is possible, as the Vyasa-yoga says, 'where the breath is, there is the mind, and there too the living being, and the Supreme'. 'Established in the holding of yoga' means intent upon the very bearing of yoga; that is the sense.