8 Step Yoga vs. 6 Step Yoga and Lahiri Mahasaya

Patanjali's eight steps of yoga set beside the six steps Lahiri Mahasaya taught, which leave out Yama and Niyama. Deep meditation surfaces old subconscious material to resolve and makes the practitioner more sensitive, so morality refines itself rather than being rejected; a student's account of inner joy illustrates the point.