1

Yoga is that form of mental restraint

which unites the personal mental faculties

with the Self-as-Intelligence.

2

As long as potentiating tendencies (vasanas) exist,

the heart should be held in that state (samadhi)

where the distinction between

the Seer, Sight, and the Seen is extinguished.

To the knower of Yoga, this is Yoga.

3

When all this world of name-and-form

is known as not other than the Absolute alone,

the mental faculties are always absorbed in the Absolute.

That also is recognized as Yoga.

4

When the modulation of the mind

flows unbrokenly, like a stream of oil,

it incessantly finds joy in the Self.

That also is remembered by Yogis as Yoga.

5

When the mind is distracted by this and that attraction,

it should always be brought back to oneness in the Self.

Let it be united in this Yoga.

6

The sources of all disasters for man are:

his willed conceptual formations, the objects of his willed desire,

and the subtle potentiating tendencies of his past,

which condition his willing. These are to be uprooted

and restrained in the Self.

7

Fundamental Reality does not reside

in the seen object as such, but in the Seer.

The Seen is the form of the Seer.

He who unites these is the superior knower of Yoga.

8

When the mind-bee, guided to the Flower of Union

by the soft winds of Yoga, drinks the honey-sweet

nectar of Self-knowledge,

it flutters no more.

9

Meditation with gaze fixed betweeen the eyebrows,

and the tongue tip touching beyond the uvula,

is the Khechari Mudra,

which has the capacity of dispelling

fatigue, sleep, and the other distractions to Yoga.

10

In this world Yoga is of two kinds:

the Yoga of Wisdom, and the Yoga of Action.

All further elaboration of Yoga is included in these.