Yogavasishtam sounds contemporary in it's formulations,pronouncements and logical inferences from arguments.The stress on experience is like insistence of science on experiment.The constant oscillation between experience and inquiry is like the insistence on repeatability in science.Further the emphasis on human effort 'purushakara' in Yogavasishtam to the near denigration of dependence on fate (daivam),rings same as the disbelief in fate by the modern scientist.Past human action determines the present condition and the present action determines the future' says Yogavasishtam.Vasishta is verily the ageless scientist.