Verse 14

⁷When a learned man, heedless of his own good, fails to see that the working of the strands is not what it seems, his memory goes at once; and knowing nothing, he comes on a household made for coupling, and finds his burnings there. ⁸This pairing of a man with a woman they call the knot that ties their two hearts. From it comes the delusion of I and mine over house, field, sons, kin and money. ⁹When that hard knot in the mind and heart, tied fast by work, comes loose, a man turns away from all of this; released, he leaves the cause behind and goes to the highest. ¹⁰By following me, the swan and the teacher, with devotion; by having no thirst; by bearing the pairs of opposites; by seeing everywhere the trouble a creature is in; by wanting to know; by austerity; by ceasing from undertakings;

¹¹by works done for me, by talk of me always, by company with those for whom I am god, by praising my qualities aloud; by having no enmity, by evenness, by quiet; my sons, by wanting to be rid of taking body and house for the self; ¹²by the yoga that goes toward the self; by keeping to lonely places; by mastering breath and senses and mind together; by true trust; by chastity kept without a break; by never letting attention slip; by holding in the speech; ¹³by a knowing skilled at seeing that I am everywhere, made bright by the knowing that follows it; by yoga: so a man who is able, joined to steadiness and effort and clarity, should throw off the mark that is called I.

¹⁴Letting nothing slip, by this yoga as it has been taught, let him wholly throw off the store of works, the binding knot of the heart that ignorance has brought on; and then let him rest even from yoga.