Raja Yoga

Raja Yoga, as expounded by Vivekananda, is the science of controlling the mind through meditation, concentration, and ethical discipline, following the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. He presented it as an empirical and systematic approach to spiritual realization, arguing that the truths of religion can be verified through direct inner experience just as rigorously as any scientific experiment. His lectures on Raja Yoga, delivered in New York in 1895-96, became one of the earliest and most influential introductions of yogic philosophy to the Western world.

Kutipan kunci tentang Raja Yoga

“As gold or silver, first covered with earth, and then cleaned, shines full of light, so the embodied man seeing the truth of the Atman as one, attains the goal and becomes sorrowless”

— Volume 1, Appendix - References To Yoga

“Mortification, study, and surrendering fruits of work to God are called Kriyā-Yoga”

— Volume 1, Concentration: Its Practice

“Then this mixture of action and reaction is presented to the Purusha, the real Soul, who perceives an object in this mixture”

— Volume 1, Concentration: Its Spiritual Uses