YOGA VASISHTHA COMES TO MANAGEMENT SCHOOLS

                                             

                                                

                                           

YOGA VASISHTHA COMES TO  MANAGEMENT SCHOOLS

The Yog Vasishtha offers profound guidance on internal personality development by addressing the root of human behaviour: the mind. Through dialogues between Sage Vasishtha and Prince Rama, it teaches detachment, self-inquiry, and mental equanimity, helping individuals dissolve ego, fear, and limiting beliefs. Its focus on inner mastery over external reaction builds resilience, clarity, and leadership presence. Recognising this, premier management schools now teach Yog Vasishtha alongside the Upanishads for personality development. Students learn to manage stress, make balanced decisions, and cultivate wisdom-led action. It transforms personality not through tips, but by reshaping consciousness itself.

S. VYASA University, Bangalore is the premier Yoga University that explicitly integrates Yog Vasishtha into its management and business administration curricula for holistic leadership development. Several IIMs, including Ahmedabad, Kozhikode, Raipur and Lucknow, teach electives on Indian philosophy, Karma yoga and Vedanta that draw upon Yog Vasishtha principles for mind management and ethical decision-making. IITs in Uttar Pradesh are also adding Yoga to their curriculum under S-VYASA’s framework, which uses the text as a core source. BITS Pilani includes The Philosophy of the Yoga-Vasistha in its Humanities repository for academic study.  Thus, it is taught across yoga universities, IIMs, IITs and research institutes.

( Avtar Mota )

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