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Abhyāsa

Practice: the steady effort to remain in stillness, paired in yoga with dispassion.

Also: Abhyasa, practice

Yoga, Sāṃkhya, Tantra and devotion

The Yoga Sūtras teach that the movements of the mind are stilled by practice and dispassion. Abhyāsa is repeated effort toward steadiness, which becomes firmly grounded when pursued for a long time, without interruption and with devotion. The Bhagavad Gītā gives the same pair as the way to master the restless mind.