SOMETHING TO REALIZE! No rituals or unique and/or special "method"!! 2. Niyama or observance of the five canons: Shaucha (internal and external purity), Santosha (contentment), Tapas (austerity), Svadhyaya (study of religious books and repetitions of Mantras (... not of "whispers" from the dead, channeled by a MEDIUM) , and Ishvarapranidhana (self-surrender