Original sentence: For the average person still far from enlightenment, yoga can be a way of increasing one's spiritual awareness, or cultivating compassion and insight.In Buddhism, which does not postulate a creator-type god, yoga may help people deepen their wisdom, compassion, and insight.In relation to views of the Self, yoga's asmita-samapatti is designed to eradicate wrong views of the Self much as Buddha did in Anatta-lakkhana-sutta.Of particular interest is a comparison of the Buddhist eight-fold path and the eight limbs of Patanjali's Yoga.Their moral precepts (the sila of Buddhism, the yama and niyama of yoga) share the Hindu principle of non-violence (ahimsa); their final steps closely relate; ultimately their steps lead to an indistinguishable goal - the cessation of mental fluctuations, citta vritti nirodha
Edited sentence: For the average person still far from enlightenment, yoga can be a way of increasing one's spiritual awareness, or cultivating compassion