The restraints are nonviolence, truthfulness, honesty, not stealing, celibacy, and absence of greed. These, universal and unqualified by birth, place, time or circumstance, are the great vow. The posture is steady and easy. Then pranayama is the regulation of breathing out and in. Then the curtain is withdrawn and the mind is fit for concentration. . . .
Concentration is binding thought in place.
Meditation is the unbroken focus of the mind on its object. The Puranas . Traditional Hindu Society. Lastly one might enter Sanyasa , and seek total dissociation from worldly involvement. It must be recognized that these divisions or stages of life were ideal and not at all rigidly enforced.