- To arrest the mind — which tries to rush outwards — securely within, is the truly heroic act of the ripe aspirant who wants to see the Supreme Lord in the Heart.
Sadhu Om: The end of this verse may also be translated as, ‘ see the Supreme, who is Lord of the Saints.’ When the mind [i.e., the ego’s attention] which wanders outside, knowing only other objects [2nd and 3rd persons] — begins to attend to its own nature, all other objects will disappear, and then, by experiencing it’s own true nature [i.e. Self], the pseudo-‘l’ will also die.
Sadhu Om: This verse clearly teaches that if the mind [i.e. the first person, ‘l’] tries to attend to itself, not only will the 2nd and 3rd per- sons disappear, but the mind itself will also die. We are thus given here a complete description of the enquiry ‘Who am I?’ that is, we are told the method, what happens during the practice, and what result it will have.