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Bhagavadgita 4.30: There are also others, of restricted diet, who are devoted to controlling the breath by ‘Kumbhaka’ i.e. restraining (stopping) inward and outward going breaths, and in doing so sacrifice the unified vital energy of all senses. All these Yogis understand the meaning of sacrificial worship and have their sins consumed away by such sacrifices.
Bhagavadgita 4.32: Thus different types of sacrifices have originated through the Vedas. Know all of them to be originated from actions. Knowing thus, you shall be free from the bondage of action.
Bhagavadgita 8.13: Controlling all the gateways of the senses, confining the mind in the heart, fixing the life breath within the head, remaining steady by way of Yoga, and uttering the monosyllable Om representing Brahma, thus remembering Me constantly, he who so departs from the body in this manner, that devotee attains the supreme goal, Akshara Brahma, which is the state of pure form of the Self.
Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali 1.27: The verbal expression of Ishvara is OM.
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