Verse 12

⁷Bearing all this, his speech held in, his senses tamed, his seed drawn up, his breath conquered, he did the highest austerity, wanting to win Krsna's favour. ⁸By that austerity, brought to its end step by step, the lodging of his works and their stain was undone; holding his breath, he shut in the band of six, and his bonds were cut. ⁹The highest yoga of the inner self, which the revered Sanatkumara had told him: by that very yoga the bull among men served the Person. ¹⁰For that good man, living the dharma of the Bhagavan and always striving with trust, there arose a devotion to the Bhagavan, to Brahman, that had no other object.

¹¹His being made clean by that service of the Bhagavan, filled out by the remembering of him that followed on it, there rose in him a knowing that carried detachment; and with that sharp thing he cut through the place of doubt, the sheath of his own living self. ¹²Every other thought cut away, the way to the self found, wanting nothing, he gave up even the discernment with which he had cut it. For a watchful striver gets nowhere by the courses of yoga so long as he takes no delight in the stories of the elder brother of Gada.