Stabilizing and clearing the clouded mind, first by meditation on attitudes of lovingness, compassion, supportiveness, and acceptance.
Cultivating the qualities such as non-harming, truthfulness, non-stealing, purity, contentment, self-study and surrender.

Meditation to reduce the colorings (kleshas) of ignorance, ego, attachment, aversions and fear.

Cultivating razor-sharp discrimination to systematically move inward in a process of concentration, meditation and deep absorption.

Seeking to know Purusha, pure consciousness as separate from Prakriti, the subtlest material and all of its evolutes, which include the levels of mind and matter.