CHAPTER VIII: RAJA YOGA IN BRIEF The following is a summary of Rāja-Yoga freely translated from the Kurma-Purāna. The fire of Yoga burns the cage of sin that is around a man. Knowledge becomes purified and Nirvāna is directly obtain... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I RAJA YOGA 05-Dec-2024
CHAPTER VII: DHYANA AND SAMADHI We have taken a cursory view of the different steps in Rāja-Yoga, except the finer ones, the training in concentration, which is the goal, to which Rāja-Yoga will lead us. We see, as human beings, tha... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I RAJA YOGA 05-Dec-2024
CHAPTER VI: PRATYAHARA AND DHARANA The next step is called Pratyāhāra. What is this? You know how perceptions come. First of all there are the external instruments, then the internal organs acting in the body through the brain centres,... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I RAJA YOGA 05-Dec-2024
CHAPTER V: THE CONTROL OF PSYCHIC PRANA We have now to deal with the exercises in Prānāyāma. We have seen that the first step, according to the Yogis, is to control the motion of the lungs. What we want to do is to feel the finer motions th... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I RAJA YOGA 27-Nov-2024
CHAPTER IV: THE PSYCHIC PRANA According to the yogis, there are two nerve currents in the spinal column, called Pingalā and Idā, and a hollow canal called Sushumnā running through the spinal cord. At the lower end of the hollow ca... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I RAJA YOGA 27-Nov-2024
CHAPTER III : PRANA Prānāyāma is not, as many think, something about breath; breath indeed has very little to do with it, if anything. Breathing is only one of the many exercises through which we get to the real Prānāyām... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I RAJA YOGA 27-Nov-2024
CHAPTER II: THE FIRST STEPS Rāja-yoga is divided into eight steps. The first is Yama— non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence, and non-receiving of any gifts. Next is Niyama—cleanliness, contentment, austerity, study... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I RAJA YOGA 27-Nov-2024
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTORY All our knowledge is based upon experience. What we call inferential knowledge, in which we go from the less to the more general, or from the general to the particular, has experience as its basis. In... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I RAJA YOGA 27-Nov-2024
CHAPTER VIII: THE IDEAL OF KARMA YOGA The grandest idea in the religion of the Vedānta is that we may reach the same goal by different paths; and these paths I have generalised into four, viz those of work, love, psychology, and knowledge... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I KARMA YOGA 16-Nov-2024
CHAPTER VII: FREEDOM In addition to meaning work, we have stated that psychologically the word Karma also implies causation. Any work, any action, any thought that produces an effect is called a Karma. Thus the law of Kar... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I KARMA YOGA 14-Nov-2024
CHAPTER VI: NON-ATTACHMENT IS COMPLETE SELF ABNEGATION Just as every action that emanates from us comes back to us as reaction, even so our actions may act on other people and theirs on us. Perhaps all of you have observed it as a fact that when persons d... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I KARMA YOGA 14-Nov-2024
CHAPTER V: WE HELP OURSELVES NOT THE OTHERS Before considering further how devotion to duty helps us in our spiritual progress, let me place before you in a brief compass another aspect of what we in India mean by Karma. In every religion there... COMPLETE WORKS VOLUME I KARMA YOGA 14-Nov-2024