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The Art of Personal Sādhana

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    rāja

    Devanāgarī: राज Translation: a king, sovereign, chief or best of its kind Similar words:samādhi Opposite words:haṭha Related concepts:laya, bhakti, yoga, yogin, mārga

    Appears in

    Bhagavad Gītā:

    Chapter 9: title

    Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā:

    Chapter 1: 1 , 2 , 3


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    Commentaries around

    “Rāja Yoga is the relationship we have with our thoughts,
    notably those that afflict, as in knock down or weaken, us.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 5

    “People often ask me if I teach Āsana.
    When I say “Yes, I do.” they say,
    “Oh you are a Haṭha Yogi.”
    If I talk about the Yoga Sūtra
    they say, “You are a Rāja Yogi.”
    If I say I am chanting the Veda,
    they say, “You are a Mantra Yogi.”
    If I say I just practice Yoga,
    they can’t understand.
    They want to put a label on me.”
    – TKV Desikachar Religiousness in Yoga
    ‘Various Approaches to Yoga’
    Chapter Seventeen Page 247-248

    “Now let us go to some of his views on matters of interest. He believes that the only Yoga text that has any clear presentation of Yoga is the Yoga Sūtra.
    But, he says, Rāja Yoga is just words without Sādhana, just like I read the other day, that philosophy itself is more interesting than any result from it.
    However, with Sādhana, Rāja Yoga is the same as Bhakti Yoga.”
    – TKV Desikachar from lectures on ‘The Yoga of T Krishnamacharya’,
    given at Zinal, Switzerland 1981.

    “Union of Jīva Ātman and Parama Ātman is a Siddhi not a Sādhana when it is felt or realised.
    If this is clear then Rāja Yoga is a Siddhi.
    However one has to work for it in Sādhana.
    Anything that takes you in this direction is a Sādhana.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “Prāṇāyāma is common to both Haṭha and Rāja Sādhana,
    whether working with the Prāṇa Śodhana of Haṭha Yoga,
    where you were taught to practice it at each
    of four transitional points through the day,
    or with the Citta Śodhana of Patañjali,
    where it is the pivotal Bahya Aṅga,
    Prāṇāyāma is seen as the primary means to engage
    the Élan Vital, the vital force or creative principle.”
    – 108 Prāṇāyāma Practice Pointers

    “Prāṇāyāma, in relation to
    Haṭha and Rāja Yoga Sādhana,
    has differing priorities, albeit
    en route towards similar goals.
    In Haṭha Yoga the intended outcome
    of Prāṇāyāma is Prāṇa Śakti.
    In Rāja Yoga the intended outcome
    of Prāṇāyāma is Manas Śānti.”
    – 108 Prāṇāyāma Practice Pointers

    “Haṭha Yoga is about Nāḍī Śodhana.
    Rāja Yoga is about Citta Śodhana.”
    – 108 Yoga Practice Pointers

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