Our daily conduct has a big impact on our capacity to meditate and to reach higher states of consciousness. That’s why the base of yoga is good conduct or the practice of Yama and Niyama.  I am in the process of writing a series of articles explaining these guidelines for good conduct, and just completed an article on Shaoca, explaining the role of cleanliness and purity in the quest for human perfection.  You can read the article by clicking this link.