Râja Yoga: Being Lectures by the Swâmi Vivekananda, with Patanjali’s Aphorisms, Commentaries and a Glossary of Terms

287 Pages·2018·19.22 MB·English

by  Swami Vivekananda

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
YOGA
Volume 7
RÂJA YOGA

RÂJA YOGA
Being Lectures by the Swâmi Vivekananda
with Patanjali’s Aphorisms, Commentaries and
a Glossary of Terms
SWÂMI VIVEKANANDA
First published in 1922 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.
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VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY
RAJA YOGA
BEING LECTURES BY T~E
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S·WAMI VIVEKANAND/A
WITH'PATANJALI'S APHORISMS, COMMENTARIES
AND A GLOSSARY OF TERMS
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EACH SOUL I$ POTEN'riALLY DIVINE. .
THE GOAL IS Tb MANIFEST THIS DIVINITY WITHIN, BY CON·
TROLLING NATURE. EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL.
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PREFACE
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 socie
ties living under the full blaze of modern.. science. The
vast mass ·of such evidence is unreliable, as coming from
ignorant, superstitious, or fraudulent persons. In many
instances the so-called miracles are imitations. But
what do they imitate ? It is not the sign of a candid
and scientific mind anything without
to~throw,overboatd
proper investigation. Surface scientists, unable to ex
p~ain the vari9us extraordinary . mental phenomena,
strive to ignore their very existence. They are, there. ..
fore, more culpable . than those who think that their
prayers are answered· by a being, or ·beings, above. the
clouds, or than those believe that their petitions
~ho
will make such beings change the course of the uni
verse. The latter have the excuse of ignorance, or at
least of a false system of education in their childhood,
which bas taught them to depend upon such beings for.
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