^135:27 External objects: Sound and other sense-objects. External objects are shut out from the mind by not thinking of them. When the eyes are half-closed in meditation, the eye-balls remain fixed, and their gaze converges, as it were, between the eyebrows. Prana is the out-going breath, Apana the in-coming; the restriction described is effected by Pranayama.

These two verses are the aphorisms of which the following chapter is the commentary.

^136:29 Dispenser: Both as author and goal, the Lord is the dispenser of the fruit of all actions.

Friend: Doer of good without expecting any return.