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## Description of Experienced Yoga
**Chapter 12, Verses 26-35**
Even without stopping the activities of the mind, the yogi, filled with indifference (nirmamtavabhav), devoid of constant attachment to objects, and free from all external and internal anxieties and efforts, becomes absorbed in the object of meditation and attains a state of extreme bliss. ||22-25||
Now, the purpose of not restraining the senses is explained. ||979||
The senses receive their respective objects. Do not restrain them, nor should you make them engage in objects. By doing so, the knowledge of the truth is revealed in a short time. ||26||
In the Vitaragastotra, we have said, "O Lord! You have not restrained the senses, nor have you left them free; but you have conquered the senses with indifference." ||26||
The following two verses explain how to conquer the mind. ||980||
Wherever the mind wanders, do not forcibly restrain it from there. For, the restrained mind becomes more agitated, while the unrestrained mind attains peace. ||27||
Just as a maddened elephant, when forcibly restrained, becomes more frenzied, but when left unrestrained, becomes calm after obtaining its desired objects, so too, the mind becomes calm by obtaining its desired objects. ||28||
The following two verses explain how to stabilize the mind. ||982||
Just as the yogi's restless mind becomes steady in a particular place and by a particular means, so too, it should not be moved in the least from that place and by that means. By practicing this method of mind control, even the most restless mind becomes steady, like a stick placed on the tip of a finger. ||29-30||
Now, the following two verses explain the means of conquering the senses. ||984||
First, the sight goes out and merges into some place. Then, having attained stability there, it gradually dissolves, i.e., retreats. Thus, the sight, spread everywhere and gradually withdrawn from there, becomes steady in the pure mirror of the supreme truth and sees the Self with the Self. ||31-32||
Now, the following three verses explain the method of conquering the mind. ||986||
The yogi, constantly immersed in indifference, free from all effort, and cultivating the feeling of supreme bliss, does not engage the mind anywhere. When the Self neglects the mind, it does not take refuge in the senses. That is, the mind does not then impel the senses towards objects. The senses also do not engage in their respective objects. ||33-34||
Neither the Self impels the mind, nor does the mind impel the senses. When both are abandoned, they automatically perish. ||35||