Prânâyâma 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 …
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The First Steps(Raja Yoga) – Swami Vivekananda
âja-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, …
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Introductory(Raja Yoga) – Swami Vivekananda
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 …
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Preface(Raja Yoga) – Swami Vivekananda
Since the dawn of history, various extraordinary phenomena have been recorded as happening amongst human beings. Witnesses are not wanting in modern times to attest to the fact of such events, even in …
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Mandukya Karika 3.38
ग्रहो न तत्र नोत्सर्गश्चिन्ता यत्र न विद्यते ।आत्मसंस्थं तदा ज्ञानमजाति समतां गतम् ॥ ३८ ॥ graho na tatra notsargaścintā yatra na vidyate |ātmasaṃsthaṃ tadā jñānamajāti samatāṃ gatam || 38 …
Mandukya Karika 3.37
सर्वाभिलापविगतः सर्वचिन्तासमुत्थितः ।सुप्रशान्तः सकृज्ज्योतिः समाधिरचलोऽभयः ॥ ३७ ॥ sarvābhilāpavigataḥ sarvacintāsamutthitaḥ |supraśāntaḥ sakṛjjyotiḥ samādhiracalo'bhayaḥ || 37 || 37. (This …