The teachings of Vasishta make one face life, understand it and transcend it, and not run away from it.

The language, he chooses, is sweet and elegant; the similes, he employs, are apt and captivating, the stories, he narrates, are profound and absorbing.

“A pupil like Sri Rama, a preceptor like Sri Vasishta, a scripture like Yoga Vasishta, there have never been nor ever will be” so exclaimed Sri Vasudeva Brahmendra Saraswati of Tamilnadu, a deep student of the Yoga Vasishta and this verse has been approvingly quoted by Dr. Atreya elsewhere in his writings.