Verse 18

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साधनान्यत्र चत्वारि कथितानि मनीषिभिः ।येषु सत्स्वेव सन्निष्ठा यदभावे न सिध्यति ॥ १८ ॥

In plain words

The sages named four essential qualifications for this path. With them, true steadiness in the goal happens; without them, it simply doesn't.

Close to the Sanskrit

The wise have declared that the means here are four, only in the presence of which steadfastness [in the goal] is accomplished, and in whose absence it does not succeed.