ABSTRACT
Vows of devotion express gratitude toward the creator, sustainer and destroyer— God— for being all merciful, and for everything created for the purposes of the world. All things are created for the soul’s enjoyment, and should be participated in with discrimination as part of the necessary, advancement of the soul and the development of the quality of justice. The attainment of uprightness means that students of yoga make their lives perfect with all harmony and love. Such harmony makes it possible to draw away the senses from the objects of sense, to keep them under control, for the purpose of turning the whole nature to the contemplation of the majestic power of God and to becoming emancipated. Grim determination to carry through the methods described is necessary, methods which are instrumental in making pure mind, heart, and body for the spiritual goal. This practice of the eight preliminary steps to yoga facilitates seeing God directly.
