The steady sage “neither rejoices on getting the pleasant nor grieves on getting the unpleasant”; “with the self unattached to outer contacts, he finds the joy that is in the Self.” This is not a grim shutting-out of the world but a discovery that makes the world's pleasures redundant. Once the inner spring is found, the outer taps lose their urgency; one no longer runs after external sensation, not because it is forbidden, but because a fuller sweetness is already at hand. “To the exclusion of the outer” means the outer is no longer needed, not that it is violently pushed away.