Verse 31

³¹Lotus-eyed, how should a man who wants release meditate on you, and as what, and with what for its self? You should tell me this meditation. ³²Bhagavan said: Sitting on a level seat, the body held even, comfortably, the hands laid in the lap, the eyes set on the tip of his own nose, ³³let him clear the path of the breath with the filling, the holding and the emptying, and practise it the other way round as well, slowly, with his senses subdued. ³⁴Sending up through the heart with the breath the unbroken syllable Om, like the sound of a bell, like the thread in a lotus stalk, let him then settle the sound back down in it again.

³⁵In this way let him practise the breath itself, joined to the syllable, ten times at each of the three sittings; and in less than a month he will have mastered the wind. ³⁶Let him meditate on the lotus of the heart standing within, its stalk upward and its face down, and then on it with its face upward, open, eight-petalled, with its seed-cup; ³⁷and in the seed-cup let him set the sun, the moon and the fire, one above another; and in the middle of the fire let him call up this form of mine, auspicious to hold in mind: