आचार्योपासनं शौचं स्थैर्यमात्मविनिग्रहः ॥ ७ ॥
amānitvamadambhitvamahiṃsā kṣāntirājaivam .
ācāryopāsanaṃ śaucaṃ sthairyamātmavinigrahaḥ .. 7 ..
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Humility : absence of self-esteem. Modesty : not proclaiming one’s own virtues. Innocence : doing no injury to any living being. Patience : not being affected : when others have done any injury. Service of the teacher : doing acts of service to the preceptor (acharya) who teaches the means of attaining moksha. Purity : washing away the dirt from the body by means of water and earths, the inner purity of mind consisting in the removal from it of the dirt of attachment and other passions by cultivating the idea * that is inimical to them. Steadfastness : concentration of all efforts exclusively in the path of salvation. Self-control : control of the self, of the aggregate of the body and the senses. This aggregate is spoken of as the self, because it is of some service to the true Self. † Self-control consists in directing exclusively to the right path the body and the mind which are by nature attracted in all directions.
The recognition of evil in all objects of senses.—(A).
There is another reading of the commentary which means that ’the aggregate’ is inimical to the Self and should therefore be restrained.