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If you read, read all the eighteen steps of yoga. Yoga has eighteen branches, and these are from the first chapter to the eighteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā. Every chapter's beginning is mentioned as a yoga, like Bhakti Yoga, Sannyāsa Yoga, Puruṣottama Yoga, and so on. Now, if you carefully read, both subjects are there: information as well as management. This is a specialty of the Indian teaching. In Indian poetry, in the system of teachings, the treasure is hidden in the poetry. It means the word, the śabda, is very important. That word has to be understood because it is an indication. In this poetry, there are both questions and answers. You call it a poem, for example, in English it’s called a poem, and we call it a Dohā. Dohā means two. The first part is a question, and the second part is an answer. So, the first part is informative, and the second part is management. This is how we need to learn self-management. In the bhajan of Holy Gurujī, where he speaks about Jñāna Yoga, there is complete information and management. So, suggestion and solution, both are there: indication, information, and the way how to solve. If the intellect is only one-sided—asking, asking, writing, and talking, and talking, and writing, asking, asking, writing, and talking, and talking—then that is a life without soul. That is an endless circle. You can run and run around the circle. The fastest step to address this is in Yama and Niyama. We have to become introvert and aware of external things. There is one word called nigraha. Nigraha means observation. Indriya nigraha: observe your senses. Mana nigraha: observe your mind. And then you can withdraw the senses or let free the senses. One who cannot manage oneself, one’s life is nearly lost.