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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. Here, I have read a few of those chapters: Bhakti Yoga, Sannyāsa Yoga, Puruṣottama Yoga. Now, if you carefully read, then both subjects are there. Both themes are present: information as well as management. This is a specialty of the Indian teaching. In Indian poetries, 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 the word is an indication. In this poetry, there are both questions and answers. You call it a poem, for example; English calls it 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. Suggestion and solution, both are there. They are indication, information, and the way how to solve. If the intellect is only one-sided—asking, asking, writing, and talking, and talking, and writing—then that is a life without soul. That is an endless circle; you can run and run around the circle. The fastest step for this is in Yama and Niyama. We have to become introverted and be aware of the external thing. There is one word called nigraha; nigraha means observation. Indriya nigraha: observe your senses. Manonigraha: observe your mind. Then you can withdraw the senses or let free the senses. One who cannot manage one's self, one's own life, is nearly lost. One who cannot manage one's own life is almost lost. One who cannot manage one's own life is lost. Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar