यतो यतो निश्चरति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम् | ततस्ततो नियम्यैतदात्मन्येव वशं नयेत्
yato yato niścarati manaścañcalamasthiram . tatastato niyamyaitadātmanyeva vaśaṃ nayet
那躁動不安、飄忽不定的心識無論從何種原因遊蕩開去，瑜伽行者都應當從那裡制伏它，並將其引導至「自我」的掌控之下。
(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.
在這節經文中，主闡述了控制心識的方法。正如你一次又一次地將跑出去的公牛拉回你的家，你也必須一次又一次地將心識拉回到你的目標或中心（Lakshya），當它朝向外在對象奔去時。如果你給公牛好的棉籽提取物、糖、香蕉等，它就不會轉身離開，而會留在你的家中。同樣地，如果你藉由專注修習，讓心識一點一點地品嚐內在「自我」的永恆至福，它將逐漸僅安住於「自我」之中，而不會奔向外在的感官對象。聲音和其他對象只會使心識躁動不安、飄忽不定。藉由了解感官享樂對象的缺陷，藉由理解它們的虛幻本質，藉由培養辨別真實與虛假的「辨別」（Viveka）以及「無欲」（Vairagya），並藉由讓心識理解「自我」的榮耀和輝煌，你可以將心識完全從感官對象中抽離，並將其牢固地固定在「自我」之上。
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.