Freed from all attachments, abstemious in diet, and controlling all the senses, one should fix his mind on the Soul, during the first and the last part of the night, after having, O king of Mithila, stopped the functions of all the senses, quieted the mind by the understanding, and assumed a posture as motionless as that of stone.
विमुक्तः सर्वसङ्गेभ्यो लघ्वाहारो जितेन्द्रियः। पूर्वरात्रेऽपररात्रे धारयीत मनोऽऽत्मनि॥ स्थिरीकृत्येन्द्रियग्राम मनसा मिथिलेश्वर। मनो बुद्ध्या स्थिरं कृत्वा पाषाण इव निश्चलः॥