Endowed with purified intelligence, controlling the Self through constancy, abandoning the objects beginning with sound, and also abandoning love and hatred.

Practice of jñāna-yoga. Buddhyā viśuddhayā yuktaḥ — united with purified intelligence.

Dhṛtyā ātmānaṃ niyamya — controlling the Self through constancy.

Śabdādīn viṣayān tyaktvā — abandoning objects beginning with sound (śabda) — the five sense objects.

Rāga-dveṣau vyudasya — eliminating attraction and repulsion.