Hindu Vedanta, yoga, mysticism

Raja Yoga

Name: Raja Yoga
Author: Swami Vivekananda

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Vivekananda's commentary on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, presenting the royal path of yoga to Western audiences. Explains the eight limbs of yoga and the development of spiritual powers through systematic practice.

Also known asSwami Vivekananda - Raja Yoga · The Raja Yoga

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Contents12 chapters

01CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY All our knowledge is based upon experience. What we call inferential ktiowled^^e, in which we go from the less to the more ^^eneral,...
02CHAPTER II THE FIRST STEPS Raja-Y o^a is divided into eight steps. The hrst is Yavia — non-killing, truthfulness, nonstealing, continence, and non-receiving...
03CHAPTER III PRANA P randy dma is not, as many think, something about breath; breath indeed has very little to do with it, if anything. Breathing is only one...
04CHAPTER IV THE PSYCHIC PRANA According to the Yogis there are two nerve currents in the spinal column, called Pingala and Ida, and a hollow canal called...
05CHAPTER VII DHYANA AND SAMADHI We have taken a cursory view of the different steps in Raja-Yoga, except the finer ones, the training in concentration, which...
06CHAPTER VIII RAJA-YOGA IN BRIEF The' folowin^ is a summary of Rdja-Vo^d freely translated from the Kurnia-Purdna. The lire of burns the ea^c of sin that is...
07CHAPTER I CONCENTRATION: ITS SPIRITUAL USES 1. Now concentration is explained. It ^ II 2. Yoga is restraining the mindstuff (Chitta) from taking various...
08CHAPTER II CONCENTRATION: ITS PRACTICE II \ II 1. Mortification, study, and surrendering fruits of work to God are called Kriya-yoga. Those Samddhis with...
09CHAPTER III POWERS We have now come to the chapter in which the Yoga powers are described. II ^ II 1. Dhdrand is holding the mind on to some particular...
10CHAPTER IV INDEPENDENCE SR^i^-jIrgr cjq:-?3TTTfeTT: || \ \\ 1. The Siddhis (powers) are attained by birth, chemical means, power of words, mortification or...
11Chapter II JW: li \ II C. Where the fire is rubbed, where the air is controlled, where the Soma flows over, there a (perfect) mind is created. "Br Wrf 3ir6^...
12Chapter IV, Section I II ® II 7. Worship is possible in a sitting posture. >S?IRTir II II 8. Because of meditation. II ^ II 9. Because the meditating...