Restraining the breath here, with all activity checked — when the breath is spent, breathe through the nostrils. As a wise charioteer holds in unruly horses, let the wise one, vigilant, hold the mind in check.
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- Tradition
- Hindu
- Source text
- Shvetashvatara Upanishad
- Chapter
- Shvetashvatara Upanishad
- Verse / page
- SU.2.9
- Topics
- MeditationMindSelf-Control
Same theme, different voices
Serve, love, give, purify, meditate, and realize
And don't interfere with forms, meditations, and imaginings, or any kind of reasoning, lest your soul becomes disturbed and loses its contentment and peace, leading to feelings of dislike and aversion.
Whosoever makes his mind the dwelling place for God, remembers it for ever, he receives the real happiness. If the mind concentrates on God, one receives joy that is free from pains.
Having reached that state, one finds their haven in the contemplation of Eternal Beauty, and no longer in worldly pleasures.