"One should hold one's body, neck and head erect in a straight line and stare steadily at the tip of the nose." Now here, you have to see, and if you close, meditation, you'll sleep. I have seen. So many so-called meditator, they're sleeping. (makes snoring sound) (laughter) I've seen it. You see?
Because as soon as you close your eyes, it is natural that you'll feel sleepy. You see? Therefore, half-closed. You have to see. That is the process. You have to see the tip of your nose, two eyes. "Thus with unagitated mind." This process will help your mind to be fixed up, unagitated mind, subdued mind, devoid of fear. Yes.
Because you have to . . . generally the yogīs, they used to practice in jungle, and if he's thinking, "Oh, some tiger is coming or not, what is that?" (laughter) You see? Or some snake is coming. Because you have to sit down alone in a jungle. You see? There are so many animals—tigers and deers and snake. So therefore it is specially stated, "devoid of fear." Devoid of . . . the skin of deer is specially used in yoga-āsana because it has got some medical effect that snakes do not come.
If you sit down on that particular skin, the snakes and reptiles will not come there. That is the purpose. You'll not be disturbed. "Devoid of fear, completely free from sex life." You see? If you indulge in sex life, you cannot fix up your mind in anything. That is the effect of brahmacārī life. If you remain brahmacārī, without sex life, then you can be determined.
Just like we have seen a practical example of Mahatma Gandhi in India. Now, he started a movement, nonviolent, noncooperation. The movement . . . the fight was declared against the powerful British Empire. Just see. And he determined that, "I shall fight with the Britishers nonviolent, without any weapon," because India was dependent; there was no weapon. And several times it was attempted by armed revolution. But these Britishers and more powerful; they cut down. So Gandhi, he invented this method that, "I shall fight with the Britishers. Even they become violent, I shall not become violent. So I shall get world sympathy." So this was his plan. He was great statesman.
But his determination was so fixed up because he was a brahmacārī. From . . . at the age of thirty-six years he gave up. He had his wife, but he gave up his sex life. He was a family man, he had children, he had his wife, but from the age of thirty-six, young man, a thirty-six year old, he gave up sex life with his wife. That made him so determined that, "I shall drive away these Britishers from the land of India," and he did it. You see? And actually he did it. So controlling the sex life . . . to refrain from sex life is so powerful. Even if you don't do anything, if you simply restrain your sex life, you become a very powerful man. People do not know the secret. So anything you do, if you want to do it with determination, you have to stop sex life. That is the secret.