Yoga-Vasistha is considered the oldest text of yoga, written almost 3000 years before Patanjali. Great masters evolved the knowledge and practices of yoga at different times without changing the very essence of its philosophy. Meditation remained as an integral organ in all ages, however, masters included many physical, breathing, cleansing, and other practices as per the need for the contemporary society.

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7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• Yoga-Vasistha is considered the oldest text of
yoga, written almost 3000 years before
Patanjali.
• The unique approach that equates with modern
scientific paradigm
• The only difference between yoga and science
is – one enquires world outside while the
other anchors the world inside
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2. 7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• Great masters evolved the knowledge
and practices of yoga at different
times without changing the very
essence of its philosophy.
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3. 7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• Meditation remained as an
integral organ in all ages,
however, masters included
many physical, breathing,
cleansing, and other
practices as per the need
for the contemporary
society.
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4. 7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• Without using the mind and intellect
asking the perennial questions of life,
yoga cannot be done
• “Know thyself’ is one of the most
important questions of life
• I have wealth, sex,
recognition BUT WHO
AM I
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7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• 7 steps of inquiry supported by
meditation awakens one to
The absolute reality
Yoga is not
• Cult, dogma, belief
• Religion, -ism
Yoga is
• Self –enquiry, self- development,
self-evolution
• Self-awakening, self-realization
• Self –transformation
It aims at Human excellence
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6. 7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• Step-1
Śubhecchā (Aim of life):
Aim for entire life is integral
approach where one
analyses the world of
change and aspires for the
absolute truth. He
continues his goal of life –
freedom, peace and love
beyond personal,
professional and social lives
of change, competition,
duality and sufferings.
Ask –
Reason-
Ready for leap-
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7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• Step-2
Vicāraṇa (Right Enquiry): one inquiry
wealth
personal
is done by science to discover the
truth in the world of change and
made remarkable progress. The
other inquiry is subjective ‘to know
But who am I
thyself’ beyond the world of
change is done by yoga. It is the
journey that challenges the mind if
Society
Family
there is ‘something (real –self)’
beyond itself.
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8. 7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• Step-3
Tanumānasa (let an observer
drop all that is observed):
mind is becoming ‘observer’,
observed’ and ‘information’
between the two. Yoga
inspires one to drop
consciously the ‘observed’ to
know the reality ‘who is the
observer’. This is done by
meditation practice.
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9. 7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• Step-4
society
ego
Sattvāpatti (awakening to Seer
"): one moves deeper into
oneself by meditation where
world
intellect
world of change outside is
known as different and
separate from , including body,
life, mind, intellect, thoughts,
ego, emotions.
cosmos
mind
body
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10. 7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• Step-5
Asaṃsakti (unattached
moving into freedom): one
realizes that the world of
change outside neither
belongs to him, nor to anyone
but the universe is in flux offers
an opportunity for evolution to
everyone. The person lives,
moves and acts in the
personal, professional lives
without any attachments,
preferences and desires. His
creativity goes beyond the
boundary.
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11. 7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• Step-6
Padārtha abhāvana (becoming a
global citizen within): the observer
alone remains, awakens to ONENESS
of all inanimate and inanimate
beings. It is a higher state of
consciousness. The realization drops
and dissolves all cravings and desires
in him naturally but he acts like any
ordinary person from outside but at
heart knows that there is only one and
one truth, existence.
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12. 7 perennial steps/ practices in yoga for human
excellence and evolution
• Step-7
Turīya (beyond three states):
The Turiya state is like an
ocean in which other three
states – waking, dream and
sleep states exist. When one
knows and lives in Turiya state,
he transcends all three states.
It is the transformation of the
entire being. It is as if being
enters fully into becoming.
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