The instruction is precise and practical. At the moment of death, with a steady mind and the strength of devotion, one draws the life-breath fully up to the point between the brows by the power of yoga (8.10); restraining all the gates of the body, holding the mind in the heart, fixing the breath at the crown (8.12); and, uttering the single syllable Om — the sound-symbol of Brahman — remembering the Divine, one departs and reaches the supreme goal (8.13). It is the same technique practised through life (5.27, 6.13), now brought to bear on its most important single application. One dies as one has learned to live.