rajayoga.pdf

R AJA Y OGA

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S WAMI V IVEKANANDA

C ELEPHAÏS P RESS

Issued by Celephaïs Press, somewhere

beyond the Tanarian Hills ( i.e.

Leeds, England), August

2003 E . V .

Revised and corrected,

November 2003.

This work is in the public domain.

E ACH SOUL IS POTENTIALLY DIVINE .

T HE GOAL IS TO MANIFEST THIS DIVINE

WITHIN , BY CONTROLLING NATURE , EXTERNAL

AND INTERNAL .

D O THIS EITHER BY WORK , OR WORSHIP , OR

PSYCHIC CONTROL , OR PHILOSOPHY , BY ONE ,

OR MORE , OR ALL OF THESE — AND BE FREE .

T HIS IS THE WHOLE OF RELIGION .

D OCTRINES , OR DOGMAS , OR RITUALS , OR

BOOKS , OR TEMPLES , OR FORMS , ARE BUT

SECONDARY DETAILS .

PREFACE

S INCE the dawn of history, various extraordinary phenomena

have been recorded as happening amongst human beings.

Witnesses are not wanting in modern times to attest the fact

of such events, even in societies 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 to throw overboard anything

without proper investigation. Surface scientists, unable to

explain the various extraordinary mental phenomena, strive

to ignore their very existence. They are, therefore, more

culpable than those who think that their prayers are answered

by a being, or beings, above the clouds, or than those who

believe that their petitions will make such beings change the

course of the universe. The latter have the excuse of

ignorance, or at least of a false system of education in their

childhood, which has taught them to depend upon such

beings for help, and this dependence has no become a part of

their degenerate nature. The former have no such excuse.

For thousands of years such phenomena have been

investigated, studied, and generalised, the whole ground of

the religious faculty of man has been analysed, and the

practical result is the science of Raja Yoga . Raja Yoga does

not, after the unpardonable manner of some modern

scientists, deny the existence of facts which are very difficult

to explain; on the other hand, it gently, yet in no uncertain

terms, tells the superstitious that miracles and answers to

prayers, and powers of faith, though true as facts, are not

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