1.06 - Raja Yoga

1.01 - Our Demand and Need from the Gita, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
of Life in our divine scope as the Lila2 of the Divine; and in some directions it is more immediately rich and fruitful, for it brings forward into the foreground along with divine knowledge, divine works and an enriched devotion of divine Love, the secrets also of the Hatha and Raja Yogas, the use of the body and of mental askesis for the opening up of the divine life on all its planes, to which the Gita gives only a passing and perfunctory attention. Moreover it grasps at that idea of the divine perfectibility of man, possessed by the Vedic Rishis but thrown into the background by the intermediate ages, which is destined to fill so large a place in any future synthesis of human thought, experience and aspiration.
We of the coming day stand at the head of a new age of development which must lead to such a new and larger synthesis. We are not called upon to be orthodox Vedantins of any of the three schools or Tantrics or to adhere to one of the theistic religions of the past or to entrench ourselves within the four corners of the teaching of the Gita. That would be to limit ourselves and to attempt to create our spiritual life out of the being, knowledge and nature of others, of the men of the past, instead of building it out of our own being and potentialities. We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the future. A mass of new material is flowing into us; we have not only to assimilate the influences of the great theistic religions of India and of the world and a recovered sense of the meaning of Buddhism, but to take full account of the potent though limited revelations of modern knowledge and seeking; and, beyond that, the remote and dateless past which seemed to be dead is returning upon us with an effulgence of many luminous secrets long lost to the consciousness of mankind but now breaking out again from behind the veil. All this points to a new, a very rich, a very vast synthesis; a fresh and widely embracing harmonisation of our gains is both an intellectual and a spiritual necessity of the future.

1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
servant. Raja Yoga propounds the methods of gaining this
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1.02 - The Eternal Law, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Depending on the level we choose, we undertake one kind of yoga or another: hatha yoga, Raja Yoga, mantra yoga, and many others,
countless others, like so many stages of our effort. We won't discuss here the great value of these methods, or the remarkable intermediate results they can lead to; we will examine only their goal, their final destination. The truth is, this "poise above" seems to have no relation with real life whatsoever; first, because all these disciplines are extremely demanding, requiring hours and hours of work every day, if not complete solitude; secondly, because their ultimate result is a state of trance or yogic ecstasy, samadhi, perfect equilibrium, ineffable bliss, in which one's awareness of the world is dissolved, annihilated.

1.03 - Meeting the Master - Meeting with others, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Hinduism
Raghunath P. Thakar, a Brahmin from Virpur near Rajkot, came on 1 January to see Sri Aurobindo. He had been to some saint at Rupal (near Kalol), had practised Raja Yoga, also some Hatha Yoga, and met Nathuram Sharma in Kathiawad. The appointment was given for today.
Sri Aurobindo: What is the aim of the Yoga you want to practise, that is to say, what do you expect from this Yoga?
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Sri Aurobindo: That is the aim of Raja Yoga and you should go to a Rajayogi Guru.
Raghunath: I have come to take up any path that you may point out. I always had the idea that I should get something from you. I am ready to do what you tell me.
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Sri Aurobindo: He has his own ideas and if he wants to practise Raja Yoga he must go to a Rajayogi Guru. For this Yoga his mind must undergo a radical change. My giving him the Yoga at present is out of the question. If he wants to prepare himself he can practise the separation of Purusha and Prakriti.
3 JANUARY 1924 (Second Interview)

1.04 - The Silent Mind, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
the asanas of hatha yoga, the concentrations of Raja Yoga, the breathing exercises of pranayama, etc. aim at arousing that ascending Force; they can be dangerous and cause profound perturbations, which make the presence and protection of an enlightened Master indispensable. We will return to this later. The difference in the direction of the current, ascending vs. descending,
has to do with a difference in goals which cannot be overemphasized.

1.06 - Raja Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
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Raja Yoga
1. Raja Yoga is an exact science. It aims at controlling all thought-waves or mental modifications.
2. Where Hatha Yoga ends, there Raja Yoga begins.
3. Hatha Yogi starts his Sadhana with his body and Prana. He practises Asanas and Pranayama and through control of Prana, tries to control the mind.
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5. The eight limbs of Raja Yoga are: Yama (self-restraint), Niyama (religious observances), Asana (posture), Pranayama (regulation of breath), Pratyahara (abstraction of the senses), Dharana (concentration), Dhyana (meditation) and Samadhi (superconscious state).
6. Yama consists of five parts, viz., Ahimsa (non-injury), Satyam (truthfulness), Asteya (non-stealing), Brahmacharya (celibacy), and Aparigraha (non-covetousness).
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14. Real Raja Yoga starts from concentration. Concentration merges in meditation. Meditation ends in Samadhi.
15. Retention of breath, Brahmacharya, Sattvic food, seclusion, silence, Satsanga, not mixing much with people are all aids to concentration.
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THUS ENDS Raja Yoga
OR THE ASHTANGA YOGA

1.08 - Summary, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Occultism
Raja Yoga, by Swami Vivekananda.
The Shiva Sanhita, or the Hathayoga Pradipika.

1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
D.: Raja Yoga realises through the body, senses, etc., and Sri Bhagavan advises realisation by thinking. This is jnana yoga.
M.: How can you think without the body?

1.400 - 1.450 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
D.: Raja Yoga realises through the body, senses, etc., and Sri Bhagavan advises realisation by thinking. This is jnana yoga.
M.: How can you think without the body?

1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
D.: I wanted to practise Raja Yoga. I could not do it because of my physical unfitness. The mind also began to wander with the movement of the body.
M.: If the mind be kept immovable let the body change as much as it likes.

1.450 - 1.500 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
D.: I wanted to practise Raja Yoga. I could not do it because of my physical unfitness. The mind also began to wander with the movement of the body.
M.: If the mind be kept immovable let the body change as much as it likes.

1.81 - Method of Training, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Occultism
To study Yoga, you have my Book 4 Part I and my Eight Lectures on Yoga. Then there is Vivekananda's Raja Yoga and several little-known Hindu writers; these latter are very practical and technical, but one really needs to be a Hindu to make much use of them. The former is very good indeed, if your remember to switch off when he slides into sloppiness, which luckily is not often.
To study Magick, Book 4, Parts II, III (Magick in Theory and Practice) and IV (The Equinox of the Gods.)[160] Add The Book of Thoth and there you are:

1.83 - Epistola Ultima, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Occultism
Raja Yoga, Vivekananda 373
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, 374

1929-04-21 - Visions, seeing and interpretation - Dreams and dreaml and - Dreamless sleep - Visions and formulation - Surrender, passive and of the will - Meditation and progress - Entering the spiritual life, a plunge into the Divine, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are disciplines such as Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga that one can practise and yet have nothing to do with the spiritual life; the former arrives mostly at body control, the latter at mind control. But to enter the spiritual life means to take a plunge into the Divine, as you would jump into the sea. And that is not the end but the very beginning; for after you have taken the plunge, you must learn to live in the Divine. How are you to do it? You have simply to jump straight in and not to think, Where shall I fall? What will happen to me? It is the hesitation of your mind that prevents you. You must simply let yourself go. If you wish to dive into the sea and are thinking all the time, Ah, but there may be a stone here or a stone there, you cannot dive.
But you see the sea and so you can jump straight into it. But how are you to jump into the spiritual life?

1954-08-25 - Ananda aspect of the Mother - Changing conditions in the Ashram - Ascetic discipline - Mothers body, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I said that between the age of eighteen and twenty I had attained a conscious and constant union with the divine Presence and that I had done it all alone, with absolutely nobody to help me, not even books, you understand! When I found onehere came to my hands a little later Vivekanandas Raja Yogait seemed to me so wonderful a thing, you see, that someone could explain something to me. This made me gain in a few months what would have perhaps taken me years to do.
I met a man. I was perhaps twenty-one then, I think, either twenty or twenty-one. I met a man who was an Indian, who came from here, and he spoke to me about the Gita There was a translation, which, by the way, was quite bad, and he advised me to read it and gave me the keyhis key, it was his keyhe told me: Read the Gita, this translation of the Gita which is not up to much, but still thats the only one in French. At that time I wouldnt have been able to understand anything in any other language. Besides, the English translations were as bad and I did not have Sri Aurobindo had not yet written his.

1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Hinduism
I dont know to whom I was mentioning this today (I think it was for a Birthday3 No, I dont know now. It was to someone who told me he was 18 years old. I said that between the ages of 18 and 20, I had attained a constant and conscious union with the Divine Presence and that I had done this ALL ALONE, without ANYONES help, not even books. When a little later I chanced upon Vivekanandas Raja Yoga, it really seemed so wonderful to me that someone could explain something to me! And it helped me realize in only a few months what would have otherwise taken years.
I met a man (I was perhaps 20 or 21 at the time), an Indian who had come to Europe and who told me of the Gita. There was a French translation of it (a rather poor one, I must say) which he advised me to read, and then he gave me the key (HIS key, it was his key). He said, Read the Gita (this translation of the Gita which really wasnt worth much but it was the only one available at the timein those days I wouldnt have understood anything in other languages; and besides, the English translations were just as bad and well, Sri Aurobindo hadnt done his yet!). He said, Read the Gita knowing that Krishna is the symbol of the immanent God, the God within. That was all. Read it with THAT knowledgewith the knowledge that Krishna represents the immanent God, the God within you. Well, within a month, the whole thing was done!

1956-02-01 - Path of knowledge - Finding the Divine in life - Capacity for contact with the Divine - Partial and total identification with the Divine - Manifestation and hierarchy, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The path of knowledge is the well-known path of Raja Yoga, in which one practises detachment from ones physical being, saying, I am not the body, then detachment from ones sensations, I am not my sensations, then from ones feelings, saying, I am not my feelings, and so on. One detaches oneself from thought and goes more and more within until one finds something which is the Eternal and Infinite.
It is a path of meditation, which is truly the path of self-knowledge seen from the point of view of the divine reality. It is the path of meditation, concentration, of withdrawal from life and action. This was the one most practised in the old yogas.

2.01 - On Books, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Hinduism
Patanjali's Raja Yoga.
There are many persons who believe that 'Yoga' means the Raja Yoga of Patanjali. His Sutras, aphorisms, are well known. It is a scientific method which resorts to:
Physico-vital processes depending on Pranayama and Asanas taken from Hatha Yoga.
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Even though the Gita gave currency to quite a different idea of Yoga and even of Samadhi, the popular mind in India has believed that Yoga means Raja Yoga, in most cases at least. It is apparent that Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is quite different from the Raja Yoga of Patanjali. It does not take the mental consciousness and its condition as the constant point of reference; for, its aim is not to secure a mental state which might reflect the Infinite but to rise above the mind. Besides, it adds the process of descent of the Supramental Consciousness into human nature which necessitates a complete transformation of the ignorant human nature into the divine: it transforms the apar prakti into the par prakti.
Sri Aurobindo: The aim of Patanjali was to rise to a higher consciousness. He proposed to do it by replacing the general Rajasic movements of nature by the Sattwic. There was no idea of practising morality in it, or of ethics. Besides, Yama and Niyama were never the aim of his efforts; the aim was to rise above the ordinary consciousness and even his idea of Samyama and Nigraha was not dictated by morality. He wanted to gather power for a spiritual purpose and so he discouraged the spending away of forces in the ordinary way.
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After hearing these points Sri Aurobindo said: "It is quite interesting. I don't know whether you can explain Raja Yoga as he does. But what is his Super-ego? I don't know. Sometimes it seems what I call the subliminal self, and sometimes the psychic being. It may be something like the Over-soul."
27 MARCH 1943

2.02 - On Letters, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Hinduism
He speaks of Raja Yoga, but in Raja Yoga also a certain purification of nature is required which is done by Yama and Niyama before the aspirant can succeed in meditation and attain Samadhi.
In this Yoga also something similar is to be done, though in a different manner. He has, first, to try to understand his own nature and get rid of egoistic motives from his actions and of desires from the vital being. He must try to acquire Samata and Sattwic balance. That is to say, he should reject lower motives and learn to act from higher motives and with a Sattwic temperament. All our actions proceed from a certain inner attitude and he has to see whether he can change the motive of desire for a higher one.

2.03 - On Medicine, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Hinduism
In Raja Yoga also you have to continue Pranayama once you begin it. My own experience is that when I was practising Pranayama at Baroda I had excellent health. But when I went to Bengal and left Pranayama, I was attacked by all sorts of illness which nearly carried me off.
5 DECEMBER 1925

2.18 - January 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Hinduism
Sri Aurobindo: These things may be steps to the Divine; for example Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga.
Disciple: Our friend X finds that yogis have defects.

2.20 - Nov-Dec 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Hinduism
Disciple: In Raja Yoga they speak of direct knowledge by Samyama concentration of the consciousness on one object.
Sri Aurobindo: That is a different thing; that comes by putting the pressure of consciousness on the thing to be known. But direct knowledge need not necessarily require concentrating on the object. When the true consciousness is there and it comes in contact with the object, it knows it directly.
Disciple: Raja Yoga also speaks of Siddhis control over matter, knowledge of Suryaloka and Chandraloka, conquest of death, etc.
Sri Aurobindo: Knowledge of Suryaloka and Chandraloka one may have, but conquest of death is another matter. The Raja Yogi does not acquire Siddhis by wanting them; they speak of Siddhis coming to them. And it is true for those who enter a certain state of consciousness.

2.25 - List of Topics in Each Talk, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Hinduism
| 25-03-43 | Jnanananda on Raja Yoga and Super-ego |
| 27-03-43 | Jnanananda's Super-ego, paths of Yoga, plagiarism |
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| 07-10-25 | Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga, and this Yoga |
| 09-10-25 | Yoga: incompatible with rajasic action; experience primary |

BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
Spirit, Soul, and body. Behold, the Taraka Raja Yoga of India limits that division to 3, we, to 4, and
the Vedantins to 5 (koshas)." To this, we of the Archaic school, ask: -Why then does the Greek poet say that "it is not four but SEVEN who sing the praise of the Spiritual

BOOK I. -- PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
scholar. He prefers the Brahmanical division of the Raja Yoga, and from a metaphysical point of view
he is quite right. But, as it is a question of simple choice and expediency, we hold in this work to the
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all practical purposes, connected with Raja Yoga, the best and simplest. Though there are seven
principles in man, there are but three distinct Upadhis (bases), in each of which his Atma may work
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The student will now be better prepared to see that between the three Upadhis of the Raja Yoga and
its Atma, and our three Upadhis, Atma, and the additional three divisions, there is in reality but very

Liber 111 - The Book of Wisdom - LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI, #unset, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
or Raja Yoga, of which I have written only here and there, as one who
should throw great Stones upon the Earth in Disorder, by Default of
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Will; by Raja Yoga is thy Lion brought to his Light; and to make
perfect thy Dragon, thou hast Bhakta Yoga for the Eagle therein, and

Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (text), #Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
814. Karma Yoga is communion with God by means of Work. Ashtanga Yoga or Raja Yoga is also Karma
Yoga, if practised without attachment. It leads to communion through meditation and concentration.

Talks 001-025, #unset, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
M.: Yes. Such is called Raja Yoga by the Hindus.
D.: Is yoga advised for a spiritual aspirant?

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