Bhagavad Gita 18.51
बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्यात्मानं नियम्य च । शब्दादीन्विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च ॥
buddhyā viśuddhayā yukto dhṛtyātmānaṃ niyamya ca / śabdādīn viṣayāṃs tyaktvā rāga-dveṣau vyudasya ca
Translation
Yoked with a purified intellect, restraining the self by steadiness, abandoning sound and the other sense-objects, and casting off liking and disliking,
Reflection
Which of the five interior moves named here is your current bottleneck?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Eighteen
First condition cluster. Five interior moves. Buddhya vishuddhaya yukta, joined to a clarified intellect. Dhritya atmanam niyamya, the self held in by steadiness. Shabdadin vishayan tyaktva, the sense-objects beginning with sound let go. Raga-dveshau vyudasya, attraction and aversion thrown off. This is the standard yogic curriculum compressed. Notice the careful order. The intellect is clarified first, because without that clarity none of the subsequent moves will be made wisely. The senses are then released, not by suppression but by the intellect's quieter authority. Attraction and aversion, the deeper twin engines of the bound life, are cast off. The verse is a checklist of the inward conditions for what follows.