RAJA YOGA

RAJA YOGA

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Book Specification

Item Code: IDG024
Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
Language: English
Edition: 2021
ISBN: 8170521521
Pages: 223
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.5" X 5.5
Weight 280 gm

Book Description

About the Author:

Born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Saga Appayya Diskhita and several other renowned saints and savants, Sri Swami Sivananda had a natural flair for a life devoted to the study and practice of Vedanta. Added to this was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind.

His passion for service drew him to the medical career; and soon he gravitated to where he thought that his service was most needed. Malaya claimed him. He had earlier been editing a Health Journal and wrote extensively on health problems. He discovered that people needed right knowledge most of all; dissemination of that knowledge he espoused as his own mission.

It was divine dispensation and the blessing of God upon mankind that the doctor of body and mind renounced his career and took to a life of renunciation to qualify himself for ministering to the soul of man. He settled down at Rishikesh in 1924, practiced intense austerities and shone as a great Yogi, Saint, Sage and Jivanmukta.

In 1932 he started the Sivanandashram. In 1936 was born The Divine Life Society. In 1948 the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy was organized. Dissemination of spiritual knowledge and training of people in Yoga and Vedanta were their aim and object. In 1950 he undertook a lightning tour of India and Ceylon. In 1953 he convened a 'World Parliament Reliogions'. He is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read his works is to drink at the fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On 14th July, 1963 he entered Mahasamadhi.

Publishers' Note:

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Maharshi are the standard Text on Yoga and these Sutras constitute a philosophy as well as a practical technique of meditation. The purpose of the Yoga way of analysis is an overcoming of the limitations of both subjectivity and objectivity and a union of the deepest within us and the deepest in the Cosmos. Yoga is not one way of living among many. It is the only way-gathering of your personality with one purpose. The removal of the idea of externality of the object is the process of meditation. There are certain misconceptions about Yoga. It is based on a sound philosophy and deep psychology. It is an education process by which the human mind is trained to become more and more natural and weaned from the unnatural conditions of life.

Very few authentic commentaries on the Yoga Sutras are available today. And, the aspirants in this science-minded world of today take a keener interest in this Branch of Yoga. All the Western Sadhakas take to the pratice of Raja Yoga. In Europe and America, hundreds of men and women Sadhakas owe their progress in the practice of Raja Yoga to the practical and efficient guidance of Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. Sri Swamiji's approach is direct, clear and positive.

There has been a persistent demand for a reprint of Sri Swamiji's Raja Yoga. We are happy now to be able to present the readers with a reprint of this precious volume.

28th July, 1999

Sri Guru Purnima

THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY

CONTENTS

Publishers' Note vi
Instructions of Sankara vii
Sri Sadguru Stotra ix
Introduction xvii
Chapter I
WHAT IS YOGA?
1. Yoga Defined 3
2. Object of Yoga 9
Chapter II
YOGA SADHANA
1. Hints on Sadhana 11
2. Bhakti Yoga Sadhana 11
3. Hatha Yoga Sadhana 12
4. Karma Yoga Sadhana 12
5. Raja Yoga Sadhana 12
6. Jnana Yoga Sadhana 13
7. Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga 13
8. Difference Paths 14
9. Period of Sadhana 15
10. What Is Vairagya 15
11. Para Vairagya 18
12. Auxiliaries to Yoga Sadhana 19
13. Obstacles of Distractions 20
14. Causes of Distractions 21
15. Remedy for Distractions 22
Chapter III
YAMA
1. Eight Accessories of Yoga 24
2. Benefits of the Accessories 24
3. What Is Yama 25
4. Universal Vows 26
5. Ahimsa 27
6. Satya 28
7. Asteya 29
8. Brahmacharya 30
9. Aparigraha 31
Chapter IV
NIYAMA
1. What Is Niyama 32
2. Kriya Yoga 33
3. Benefits of Purification 34
4. Benefits of Eternal Purification 34
5. Benefits of Internal Purification 35
6. Santosha 36
7. Tapas 36
8. Svadhyaya 37
9. Isvarapranidhana 37
Chapter V
BHAKTI IN YOGA
1. Who Is Isvara 39
2. Source of Knowledge 39
3. The Guru of All 40
4. Name of Isvara 40
5. Japa of Om 42
6. Benefits of Japa 44
7. Benefits of Devotion 44
8. Instructions on Bhakti 45
Chapter VI
ASANA
1. What Is Asana 47
2. How to Get Asanajaya 49
3. Benefits of Asana 50
4. Instructions on Asanas 50
Chapter VII
PRANAYAMA
1. What Is Pranayama 52
2. What Is Prana 52
3. Yoga Nadis 54
4. Chakras 54
5. Prana and Mind 55
6. Prana and Breath 55
7. Pranayama Exercises 56
8. Preliminary Exercise 57
9. Sukha Purvaka Pranayama 58
10. Kevala Kumbhaka 59
11. Benefits of Pranayama 59
12. Mind Fit for Concentration 60
13. Hints on Pranayama Practice 60
Chapter VIII
MIND
PART 1- MODIFICATIONS OF MIND
1. Modifications of Mind 62
2. Five Modifications 63
3. Pramana 63
4. Viparyaya 65
5. Vikalpa 65
6. Nidra 67
7. Smriti 67
PART 2- AFFLICTIONS OF MIND
1. What Are the Afflictions 68
2. What Is Avidya 69
3. Avidya Explained 70
4. How to Remove Avidya 70
5. What Is Egoism 71
6. What Is Raga 72
7. What Is Dvesha 73
8. What Is Abhinivesa 73
9. How ot Remove Raga, Dvesha and Abhinivesa 74
10. How to Remove Evil Thoughts 75
11. What Is Pratipaksha Bhavana 75
12. The Root of Afflictions 77
13. The Effect of Afflictions 78
14. Fruits of Afflictions 80
15. Destroy Afflictions 80
16. Karma in a Yogis 81
17. Karma and Environments 81
18. Karmas in a Viveki 82
19. Avoid Misery 83
20. The Cause of Misery 84
21. Definition of "The Seen" 85
22. Ignorance Is the Cause 86
23. The Means for Kaivalya 87
PART 3-DESIRES
1. Consecutiveness in Desires 87
2. Desire Is Beginningless 89
3. How to Destroy Desires 90
4. Mind Acts for the Purusha 91
5. Desireless Mind 91
PART 4-GUNAS
1. Time and Gunas 92
2. Nature of Characteristics 92
3. Reality of Things 93
4. Stages of Gunas 95
5. Hints on Gunas 96
PART 5-MYSTERIES OF MIND
1. Ways of Mind Differ 97
2. Mind and Perception 97
3. Mind Is Coloured by Objects 98
4. Purusha Knows All Modifications 99
5. Mind Is Not Self-Iuminous 99
6. Mind Does One Things at a Time 100
7. Cognition by One Mind 101
8. Mind Shines by Borrowed Light 102
9. Mind Understands Everything 102
10. Transformation of Mind 103
11. Dharmi Explained 103
12. Changes in Dharmas 104
PART 6- CONTROL OF MIND
1. Control by Abhyasa and Vairagya 104
2. What Is Abhyasa 105
3. Control by Suppression of Vrittis 106
4. Make the Suppression Steady 107
5. Control Mind by Virtues 107
6. Control Mind by Pranayama 108
7. Control Mind by Vedantic Method 108
Chapter IX
PRATYAHARA
1. What Is Pratyahara 109
2. Benefits of Pratyahara 110
Chapter X
DHARANA
1. What Is Dharana 112
2. The Mind of Distractions 113
3. Dharana on Sense Perception 114
4. Dharana on Sattvic Mind 115
5. Dharana on the Desireless Mind 116
6. Dharana on the Knowledge of Dream 116
7. Dharana on Triputi 117
8. Dharana on Any Chosen Object 118
9. The Concentrated Mind 119
10. Benefits of Dharana 120
11. Instructions on Dharana 121
Chapter XI
SAMYAMA
1. What Is Samyama 123
2. Samyama As Antaranga Sadhana 123
3. Samyama As Bahiranga Sadhana 124
4. Benefits of Samyama 124
5. Samyama on External Objects 125
6. Samyama on Internal Centres 130
7. Samyama on Virtues 135
8. Samyama on discrimination 136
9. Samyama on Sabda and Artha 136
10. Samyama on Karma 137
11. Samyama on Chakras and Nadis 138
12. Fruits of Pratibha 142
13. What Is Taraka 142
14. Parakaya Pravesa 143
15. Samyama on Forms 146
16. Eight Siddhis 147
17. Perfection of Body 148
18. Other Means for Siddhis 149
19. Instruction on Samyama 150
Chapter XII
DHYANA
1. What Is Dhyana 154
2. Instructions on Dhyana 154
Chapter XIII
SAMADHI
1. What Is Samadhi 158
2. Means for Samadhi 158
3. Dharmamegha Samadhi 161
4. Benefits of Dharmamegha Samadhi 161
5. Samprajnata Samadhi 164
6. Asamprajnata Samadhi 167
7. Benefits of Nirvichara Samadhi 170
8. Instructions on Samadhi 175
Chapter XIV
KAIVALYA
1. What Is Kaivalya 178
2. Means for Kaivalya 178
3. Purusha Cognises Through Intellect 179
4. Knowable Is for the Purusha 180
5. Pradhana Is Not Destroyed 180
6. Samyoga Explained 181
7. Mind Is Not Purusha 181
8. Discrimination Is Sevenfold 182
9. Mind Fit for Kaivalya 183
10. Thoughts Are Obstacles 183
11. Remedy for Obstacles 184
Epilogue 186
APPENDICES
A. Gleanings 189
B. Psychic Influence 194
C. Glossary 209
D. Reference to Sutras 216

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