Just changed a little bit of my practice.

Pranayama cleans the mind, kind of like cleaning the temple. But it is not enough if the mind is left empty. One has to install the idol of God in the temple. Pranayama is the 4th step in Pathanjali Yoga. So, I'm going to do the Pathanjali Yoga instead of merely the Pranayama. The mantra I will be using for it is Maam Yekam Sharanam Vraja. The good thing about having this mantra is that not only does it form a part of Pathanjali Yoga but is also a way of Sharanam. Yoga is centrifugal while Sharanam is centripetal. By balancing these two, the object can be put into perpetual circular motion...kind of like launching a geo-stationary satellite around the earth...in spiritual terms, this is liberation.

So I will be doing the 4 Yogas with implicit Sharanam...Pathanjali (including Pranayama and using the Sharanam mantra), Jnana (a Bhagavad Gita verse a day), Karma (saying Krishna Unakke Preethi before starting on the work thereby dedicating the fruits of the work to Krishna) and Bhakthi (listening to Mahalakshmi Ashtothram and Vishnu Sahasranam). This will cover what is said as a conclusion in the Bhagavad Gita verses 18:65 & 18:66.

So there it is...the prescription that I need to follow. It cannot get any simpler than this for me.