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Pratyâhâra, the retraction or withdrawing of the senses.

The reader will remember that this state of contemplation is to be preceded by pratyâhâra, or direction of the senses inwards, in which ordinary external stimuli are not felt.

No, it means nothing for me to tell you that I have learned Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dyhana and Samadhi!

But,"—he smiled with all his old mockery—"mostly I failed on Pratyahara, which says the senses must be quelled, subdued and set aside!

The first exercise in Raja Yoga Is what is called Pratyahara or the art of making the mind introspective or turned inward upon itself.