बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्यात्मानं नियम्य च | शब्दादीन्विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च
buddhyā viśuddhayā yukto dhṛtyātmānaṃ niyamya ca . śabdādīnviṣayāṃstyaktvā rāgadveṣau vyudasya ca
具備純淨的智慧，以堅忍制伏自我，捨棄聲等感官對象，並摒除貪愛與憎惡；
Being endowed with a pure intellect, and controlling oneself with fortitude, rejecting the objects-beginning from sound [Sound, touch, form and colour, taste and smell.-Tr.], and eliminating attachment and hatred;
低級自我應由純淨智慧的「真我」堅定地控制。騷動不安的感官和心靈應藉助純淨智慧或理性來制伏。純粹的理性是一種強大的力量。每當感官抬頭作響時，都應被純淨智慧或理性的強大權杖擊退。理性是決斷的能力。純淨智慧：指擺脫了貪欲、憤怒、貪婪、驕傲、懷疑、誤解等的心智。它如同明鏡。純淨的智慧本身就是「梵」。它能輕易地融入「梵」中。當純淨智慧融入「梵」時，反射的意識，即「奇達巴薩」（Chidabhasa）或「吉瓦」（Jiva，個體靈魂），也隨之被「梵」吸收。「吉瓦」變得與「梵」合一，就像罐中的虛空在罐子破碎時與宇宙虛空合一一樣。自我：身體與感官的總和。尋道者透過反覆練習「普拉提亞哈拉」（Pratyahara，即感官收攝）和「達瑪」（Dama，即自我約束），一次又一次地將感官從其各自的對象中撤回。感官逐漸固定在「真我」中，其外向的傾向被完全遏制。尋道者透過持續冥想達到對感官的至高控制，透過無欲的實踐戰勝「拉伽」（Raga，即執著），並透過純粹的愛、宇宙之愛或神聖之愛戰勝憎恨。他放棄一切奢侈品，只保留維持身體所需的基本物品。即使對於這些必需品，他既無執著亦無憎恨。
The lower self should be controlled with firmness by the Self of pure intellect. The turbulent senses and the mind should be subdued with the help of the pure intellect or reason. Pure reason is a great power. Whenever the senses raise their heads and hiss? they should be hammered by the powerful rod of pure intellect or reason. Reason is the faculty of determination.Pure intellect The intellect that is free from lust? anger? greed? pride? doubt? misconception? etc. It is like a clear mirror. A pure intellect is Brahman Itself. It can be easily merged in Brahman. When the pure intellect is merged in Brahman? the reflected intelligence? Chidabhasa or Jiva? is also absorbed in Brahman. The Jiva becomes identical with Brahman? just as the ether in the pot becomes one with the universal ether when the pot is broken.The self The aggregate of the body and the senses.The aspirant withdraws the senses from their respective objects again and again through the repeated practice of Pratyahara (abstraction) and Dama (selfrestraint). Gradually the senses are fixed in the Self. Their outgoing tendencies are totally curbed. The aspirant attains supreme control of the senses by constant meditation? by the practice of dispassion he coners Raga (attachment)? and through the practice of pure love or cosmic love or divine Preme he coners hatred.He abandons all luxuries. He keeps only those objects which are necessary for the bare maintenance of the body. He has neither attachment nor hatred even for those objects which are necessary for that purpose.