Verse 15

¹⁵Dear one, when an ascetic seated in a steady and easy posture wishes to leave this world, let him not fasten his mind upon the time or the place, but with his mind hold in the breaths, having mastered them. ¹⁶Restraining the mind by his own spotless understanding, let him lead it into the knower of the field, and that into the Self; and having shut the self within the Self, steady and having found stillness, let him cease from all doing. ¹⁷Where time, that supreme master of the unblinking ones, does not reach, how much less the gods who rule the worlds; where there is no clarity, no passion, no darkness, no change, no great principle and no ground:

¹⁸that they declare to be the supreme abode of Visnu, which those wishing to throw off whatever it is not approach by saying, not this, not this; who having thrown off their own meanness and having no friendship elsewhere embrace in the heart, at every step, those feet that are worthy. ¹⁹So let the sage come to rest, established, his mind well opened by the strength of that sight which is understanding; pressing the lower opening with his heel, having conquered weariness, let him raise the air upward through the six stations. ²⁰Let the sage raise it from the navel where it stands to the heart, and thence by the way of the udana lead it to the chest; and then, joining it with his understanding, let him of steady mind lead it slowly to the root of the palate.

²¹From there let him raise it to the space between the brows, having closed the seven gates and let go of every regard; and having stayed there half a moment with sight undulled, let him break through the crown and depart, having reached the supreme.