Having closed all the gates, having confined the mind in the heart, having fixed the life-breath in the head engaged in the practice of concentration,

sarvadvārāṇi = all the doors of the body; saṃyamya = controlling; manaḥ = the mind; hṛdi = in the heart; nirudhya = confining; ca = also; mūrdhni = on the head; ādhāya = fixing; ātmanaḥ = of the soul; prāṇaṃ = the life air; āsthitaḥ = situated in; yogadhāraṇāṃ = the yogic situation.;