Bhagavad Gita 6.13
समं कायशिरोग्रीवं धारयन्नचलं स्थिरः | सम्प्रेक्ष्य नासिकाग्रं स्वं दिशश्चानवलोकयन् ||
samaṁ kāya-śiro-grīvaṁ dhārayann acalaṁ sthiraḥ | samprekṣya nāsikāgraṁ svaṁ diśaś cānavalokayan ||
Translation
Holding his body, head, and neck even and unmoved, remaining steady, looking at the tip of his own nose, and not looking about in any direction,
Reflection
What is the one near point you could fix your sight on so the room stops offering reasons to leave?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Six
The instruction trims the field down to one line, the nose tip in front of him, no glance to either side. This is not mystical. The wandering eye is one of the loudest pulls on the mind. Anyone who has tried to sit knows that a single tilt of the head toward a window can take half the morning back. Krishna closes that door early. The spine is held in one column. The neck does not crane. The eyes go softly to a near point. The body becomes a thing that no longer keeps offering the mind reasons to leave the seat. The mind, with nothing to chase, begins to settle.