“If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.”

In the same way, a part of your mind is tied to God through your mantra while the other part is engaged in worldly pursuits. You dive deep to get all the pearls you want to gather: name, fame, money, position, friends, anything you want. You need not stay away from anything as long as you do

In other words, Īśvara is all-knowing and is knowledge itself.

This itself is Yoga practice—watching our own thoughts and analyzing them.

We need all these three qualities: patience, devotion and faith.

A focused mind gains power, and when that powerful mind concentrates on an object, the entire knowledge of that object is revealed to it.

When you want to do something constantly, your mind should not be distracted by other desires. That’s why this sort of dispassion or non-attachment must always go with the practice.

That’s why Patañjali says the supreme Puruṣa, or Īśvara, is the Guru of the gurus.

That is why the Upaniṣads say, “Ekam sat, viprahā bahudha vadanti.” “Truth is one; seers express it in many ways.”