Devarshi Steven Hartman
Coming August 2026
The Three
Essentials
Timeless Principles for Inner Peace and Self-Transformation
After five decades of practice, Devarshi Steven Hartman has distilled the universal curriculum for being human into three simple, life-changing principles. This is the book your soul has been waiting for.
A Question Worth Asking
What Do You Really Want?
Peace
Happiness
Happiness
Love
Safety
Health
Meaningful Purpose
Belonging
Freedom
These are the things that all people want, all around the earth. It’s quite simple and quite clear. And yet — most of us can’t seem to obtain them. They constantly elude us.
After asking this question of thousands of people across the world, Devarshi discovered something remarkable: the answers lie within, and there is a direct path to them. The Three Essentials is that path.
About the Book
The Secret to Life —
Hidden in Plain Sight
In The Three Essentials, Devarshi will uncover for you the secret to life — which isn’t a secret at all. It has always been and always will be right before our eyes. But this book will show you how to lift the veil and experience it for yourself.
These are not lofty, untouchable ideas. They’re simple, easy, and clean. They are the pathway to creating personal peace — a universal curriculum that works regardless of your background, beliefs, or spiritual tradition.
After decades of teaching the Three Essentials to thousands of people in trainings and workshops, Devarshi can say with certainty: these essentials work. People report being happier, less stressed, more fulfilled, better in their relationships — with more love and authentic community in their lives.
“Now, before I pass out of this world,” Devarshi writes, “I want to make the Three Essentials available to others on a larger scale — to reach and help as many people as possible, to create more inner peace and a more peaceful world.”
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Like a compass for the soul, the Three Essentials will help you navigate with courage, reconnect with your true path, and live with the authenticity and fearlessness that will transform not only your world but the world around you.
— Devarshi Steven Hartman, from the Introduction
The Heart of the Book
Three Timeless Principles
After five decades of dedicated practice and research, Devarshi found that these three essentials always rise to the top — the universal curriculum for being fully human. They’re not lofty and untouchable. They’re simple, easy, and clean.
The First Essential
Be Here Now
Everything you want — peace, love, fulfillment, freedom — can only be found right now. The present moment is the only place where life actually happens.
“Being right here, right now, fully present in the moment, is the kingpin of it all. It’s the Holy Grail.”
The Second Essential
Feel It Fully
We were born with our volume turned all the way up. Then life hurt us, and we turned it down. To be fully present, you must turn the volume back up — and feel everything you’ve been avoiding.
“Whatever arises — digest it, heal it, free it, forgive it. It has not come to take you down. It has come for your liberation.”
The Third Essential
You Are Infinite, Eternal & Whole
The most important choice you will ever make. Every fear you have is rooted in the belief that you are a body that will die. This essential dissolves that belief — and with it, all fear.
“Out of every possible belief, this is without a doubt the single best, most loving, most courageous, most life-changing belief anyone could ever choose.”
What This Book Offers
A Life Transformed
Devarshi has watched these three principles change lives across five decades of teaching. Here is what students consistently report after applying the Three Essentials:
Less Suffering
The time spent suffering is significantly reduced. Issues that once spiraled for years compress to months, then weeks, then days — and eventually to a single breath.
Deeper Relationships
More love and authentic community. Better communication, more presence with the people you care about, and the courage to speak your truth.
Freedom from Fear
Every fear you carry traces back to a single root belief. When that belief shifts, the fears dissolve — not as a concept, but as a lived experience.
Living Your Dharma
Clarity about your purpose. Students report finally living the life their soul has been calling them toward — with less hesitation and more joy.
Genuine Happiness
Not the happiness that depends on circumstances, but the kind that is already inside you — waiting to be uncovered, not created.
Inner Peace That Lasts
Not a temporary reprieve, but a stable ground. A place you can return to in an instant, no matter what is happening around you.
From the Introduction
These Essentials Work
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Recently, a group of my students were having a ten-year anniversary party for their graduation from my yoga training. Straight across the board, each person said the training changed the trajectory of their life. When I asked them to be specific, all agreed that the time they spent suffering had been significantly reduced. Issues that had spiraled them down for years had been reduced to a month, then a week, then a day, an hour, a minute. Many described the skill of simply shifting back to the presence they desired in an instant.
Devarshi Steven Hartman
From the Introduction, The Three Essentials
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I believe that if you’re reading this book, it is not accidental: it is time for you to know this technology. Don’t get confused. Don’t get distracted. The difficulty is in the simplicity. Stay with the program. It will give you the most enjoyable life that you can live. It will continue to bring to you the peace, joy, love, health, and freedom that you are seeking.
Devarshi Steven Hartman
From the Introduction, The Three Essentials
About the Author
Devarshi Steven Hartman
E-RYT 500 · Founder, Pranotthan Yoga School · Maui, Hawaiʻi
Devarshi Steven Hartman has been immersed in the study and practice of yoga and yoga philosophy since 1974, including nearly a decade living in a spiritual ashram in the Berkshire Mountains. He is the founder of the Pranotthan Yoga School and has personally trained and certified more than 4,500 yoga teachers through 200- and 500-hour programs across the country.
From 2004–2014, he served as Director of Professional Trainings and Dean of the Kripalu School of Yoga — one of the most prestigious yoga institutions in the world. His Kripalu Yoga DVD has been viewed by more than 300,000 people. Since 1976, he has also been a dedicated student and teacher of A Course in Miracles.
Today, Devarshi teaches at world-renowned centers including the Omega Institute and Esalen Institute. Based in Maui, Hawaiʻi, he guides transformative retreats, yoga teacher trainings, and a private practice in spiritual counsel. His life’s passion is human transformation — the mystery of how people awaken to their highest selves.
“My greatest reward is knowing that these tools have changed many lives for the better. Now, before I pass out of this world, I want to make the Three Essentials available to as many people as possible.”
Inside the Book
More Than a Philosophy — A Practice
The Three Essentials is not an abstract spiritual treatise. It is a hands-on guide filled with Devarshi’s own extraordinary life stories — from witnessing his best friend’s death at age twelve, to nine years in a monastic ashram, to a near-death experience in college that gave him a visceral, undeniable experience of consciousness beyond the body.
Each essential is explored through vivid personal narrative, yogic philosophy, and practical exercises drawn from decades of teaching. You will find:
- The Buddha's parable that perfectly captures our struggle with presence
- The 'volume button' metaphor that explains why we can't feel joy
- A step-by-step process for dissolving self-sabotaging beliefs
- Yogic maps (the five koshas) to navigate your inner landscape
- The single question that traces every fear to its root
- Practices from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and A Course in Miracles
Coming August 2026
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