Verse 26

¹⁸When the yogin has grown weary of the things he sets his hand to, and turned away, his senses held in, he should by practice hold his mind unmoving on the self. ¹⁹When the mind he is holding wanders and will not quickly stay put, he should, not letting himself grow slack, lead it back under the self's rule by a way that goes along with it. ²⁰One whose breath is conquered and whose senses are conquered should not let the mind's going out of his hands. With an understanding filled with clarity he should lead the mind back under the self's rule. ²¹This is held to be the highest yoga, the gathering in of the mind, done again and again as with a horse that is being broken, watching for the moment when it knows the heart.

²²By enumeration he should think over the coming to be and the passing away of all the states, against the grain and with it, until the mind grows clear. ²³For a man who is weary and turned away, and who knows what has been said, the mind gives up its bad nature by thinking again over what has been thought. ²⁴By the restraints and the other paths of yoga, and by the art of inquiry, or by the honouring and serving of me, and by no other means, he should keep the mind on what is fit for it. ²⁵If a yogin should through carelessness do a blameworthy work, he should burn out that wrong by yoga itself, and never at all by anything else.

²⁶Standing fast in one's own charge is what is called a merit. By this a rule was made for works that are unclean by their very kind, by the laying down of merit and fault, out of a wish to have men let their clingings go.