सर्वद्वाराणि संयम्य मनो हृदि निरुध्य च ।मूर्ध्न्याधायात्मनः प्राणम् आस्थितो योगधारणाम् ॥
sarvadvārāṇi saṃyamya mano hṛdi nirudhya camūrdhnyādhāyātmanaḥ prāṇam āsthito yogadhāraṇām
All the doors of the senses closed, the mind shut in into the heart, the life-force taken up out of its diffused movement into the head, the intelligence concentrated in the utterance of the sacred syllable OM and its conceptive thought in the remembrance of the supreme Godhead, he who goes forth, abandoning the body, he attains to the highest status.
Gītā 8·12That is the established Yogic way of going, a last offering up of the whole being to the Eternal, the Transcendent. But still that is only a process; the essential condition is the constant undeviating memory of the Divine in life, even in action and battle— mām anusmaran yuddha ca —and the turning of the whole act of living into an uninterrupted Yoga, nitya-yoga.
