Raja Yoga is a book by Swami Vivekananda about "Raja Yoga", his interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras adapted for a Western audience. The book was published in July 1896. It became an instant success and was highly influential in the Western understanding of yoga. Each soul is potentially divine.The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy — by one, or more, or all of these — and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
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Calcutta. His childhood name was Narendranath. His father Mr. Vishwanath Dutt was a famous lawyer of the Calcutta High Court.His mother, Mrs. Bhuvaneshwari Devi, was a woman of religious thought. From childhood, Narendra was very intelligent and naughty.Due to the influence of the religious and spiritual environment of the family, the values of religion and spirituality deepened in the mind of child Narendra.At the age of five, this eccentric child always used to think, behave and interpret every information at his discretion, always thinking about the events happening around him and drawing his own conclusions.On July 4, 1902, this great ascetic ended his illusion and merged with the divine. Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 4.9 out of 5 stars 15 5.0 out of 5 stars 5 4.3 out of 5 stars 11 5.0 out of 5 stars 10 4.1 out of 5 stars 21 Price ₹103.69₹103.69 ₹51.45₹51.45 ₹51.45₹51.45 ₹51.45₹51.45 ₹51.45₹51.45 ₹51.45₹51.45
Karma Yoga
The word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit Kri, to do; all action is Karma. Technically, this word also means the effects of actions. In connection with metaphysics, it sometimes means the effects, of which our past actions were the causes. But in Karma-Yoga we have simply to do with the word Karma as meaning work. The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal.
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Raja-Yoga
The subject of the present book is that form of Yoga known as Raja-Yoga. The aphorisms of Patanjali are the highest authority on Raja-Yoga, and form its textbook. The other philosophers, though occasionally differing from Patanjali in some philosophical points, have, as a rule, acceded to his method of practice a decided consent. The first part of this book comprises several lectures to classes delivered by the present writer in New York. The second part is a rather free translation of the aphorisms (Sutras) of Patanjali, with a running commentary.
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Jnana-Yoga
According to ancient Vedic texts, there are four main paths of Yoga. Jnana Yoga is said to be the most difficult and complex amongst them. A jnana yoga follower needs to possess great will power and intellectual prowess to discipline the mind and transcend its varied thoughts and habits.
Jnana Yoga is also known as the wisdom yoga. The principal goal of Jnana yogis is to attain liberation from this materialistic Maya world and merge with the superior inner self or the ‘Atman’.
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Bhakti-Yoga
Bhakti-Yoga is a real, genuine search after the Lord, a search beginning, continuing, and ending in love. One single moment of the madness of extreme love to God brings us eternal freedom. "Bhakti", says Nârada in his explanation of the Bhakti-aphorisms, "is intense love to God"; "When a man gets it, he loves all, hates none; he becomes satisfied for ever"; "This love cannot be reduced to any earthly benefit", because so long as worldly desires last, that kind of love does not come; "Bhakti is greater than karma, greater than Yoga, because these are intended for an object in view, while Bhakti is its own fruition, its own means and its own end."
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