Without the knowledge of the Self, there is no other means to attain peace.

Vasiṣṭha closes the circle of the Upaśama Prakaraṇa with the affirmation that grounds everything: stillness is not the result of accumulated techniques but of a single knowledge. Not that techniques are useless — Patañjali’s yoga abhyāsa is revered here — but their purpose is to prepare the ground for this knowledge, to clean the mirror so it reflects without distortion. The ātma-jñāna is not information about the Self but the Self recognizing itself in and through the quiet mind. The Yoga Sūtra (IV.29-30) describes this moment as prasaṅkhyāne ‘py akusīdasya sarvathā viveka-khyāter dharma-meghaḥ samādhiḥ: the rain of dharma that falls when discrimination is perfect. In that rain, the thirst for techniques dissolves not because they are abandoned but because they reveal themselves as manifestations of the very knowledge they sought. The peace that follows is not a state but the very nature of one who no longer seeks.