In this book the author has laid down some practical steps for all sincere spiritual aspirants eager to make spiritual progress. He specially deals with the preliminary stages of practical religion. His valuable suggestions from his own experiences will be a useful guide to all religious aspirants whom modern life assails with various doubts and difficulties in the practice of religious precepts. A very informative book for all earnest beginners in spiritual life to help them form a clear picture of the spiritual ideal, the gulf between them and the goal, and the ways to fill up that gulf.
There is only one sin -- and that sin is weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is the soul who never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.
-Swami Vivekananda