Verse No 121

“Now, pratyāhāra (withdrawal) is indicated as follows:

In relation to objects — whether external things like pots, or sensory qualities like sound and the rest — by applying the method of agreement and difference (anvaya-vyatireka), one discerns that their true nature is nothing but Existence, Consciousness, and Bliss (sattā–sphurattā–priyatā).

Contemplating thus, the mind (antahkaraṇa) is made to submerge into Pure Awareness, free from the associations of name, form, and activity. Abidance in one’s own essential nature as Consciousness alone — this is called pratyāhāra.

Then, what follows? The text says: it must be steadily practiced (abhyasanīya).”