Notes: The word karma indicates a spectrum of active engagement, both practical works and contemplative practices, through which the senses and mind of the contemplator are captured and brought under the control of the underlying self. This is the initial practice. The word śamaḥ indicates "equanimity" relative to the world of action, an internal abiding where the phenomenal world is abstracted into an inner sphere of contemplation and cultivation, where the plurality of phenomena are distilled into the unity of yoga. This is the advanced practice.