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.