Sagel Patanjai’s 8-step path to self-unfoldment or self-realization are listed as follows:
Step 1 – Virtue of good conduct:
Includes nonviolence, not harming other living beings, truthfulness, honesty, and marital fidelity.
Step 2 – Practising certain observances which include:
Purity of body, mind, and speech, acceptance of others, as well as acceptance of one’s circumstances, persistence, perseverance, self-introspection, and contemplation of a supreme being.
Step 3 – Asanas:
The practice of physical postures (asanas). Asanas…..