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.
Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.
-Swami Vivekananda