यतो यतो निश्चरति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम् | ततस्ततो नियम्यैतदात्मन्येव वशं नयेत्
yato yato niścarati manaścañcalamasthiram . tatastato niyamyaitadātmanyeva vaśaṃ nayet
无论那躁动不安的心从何处游荡开去，都应将其从那里制止，并使其臣服于自我（ātman）本身。
(The yogi) should bring (this mind) under the subjugation of the Self Itself, by restraining it from all those causes whatever due to which the restless, unsteady mind wanders away.
在这节经文中，主给出了控制心智的方法。就像你一次又一次地把跑出去的公牛拖回家一样，你也必须一次又一次地把心智拖回到你的目标或中心，当它跑向外部对象时。如果你给公牛喂食好的棉籽提取物、糖、香蕉等，它就不会跑开，而是会留在你家。同样，如果你通过专注的练习，让心智一点一点地品尝内在自我（ātman）的永恒至福，它就会逐渐只安住于自我中，而不会跑向外部感官对象。声音和其他对象只会使心智躁动不安。通过了解感官享乐对象的缺陷，通过理解它们的幻相本质，通过培养辨别实相与非实相的能力（Viveka）以及离欲（Vairagya），并通过让心智理解自我（ātman）的荣耀和辉煌，你可以完全使心智脱离感官对象，并将其牢固地固定在自我上。
In this verse the Lord gives the method to control the mind. Just as you drag the bull again and again to your house when it runs out? so also you will have to drag the mind to your point or centre or Lakshya again and again when it runs towards the external objects. If you give good cotton seed extract? sugar? plantains? etc.? to the bull? it will not turn away but will remain in your house. Even so if you make the mind taste the eternal bliss of the Self within little by little by the practice of concentration? it will gradually abide in the Self only and will not run towards the external objects of the senses. Sound and the other objects only make the mind restless and unsteady. By knowing the defects of the objects of sensual pleasure? by understanding their illusory nature? by the cultivation of discrimination between the Real and the unreal and also dispassion? and by making the mind understand the glory and the splendour of the Self you can wean the mind entirely away from sensual objects and fix it firmly on the Self.