READ THE FOUR YOGAS OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The phenomenal self is only a seeming reality. It has no essential existence. The ego is, thus, the impediment to the realisation of the absolute Self which is the witness of all of phenomena. This impediment will have to be removed. But how does one do it? The methods have been discovered ages ago and they form the body of our four yogas. They are Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga.
Swami Vivekananda has written his simplified versions of these yogas for easy understanding of everybody. Some of these are in the form of lectures delivered by him as in the case of Jnana Yoga while the others are his own writings on the remaining three yogas. The language is lucid and comfortable reading, the content the philosophical outflow of a realised soul and the authenticity, thus, beyond question or doubt whatsoever.
Yoga is the union of the individual soul with the universal soul as is commonly defined and commonly understood by the mind immersed in the dual mode of thinking. The four yogas aim at realisation of the underlying unity behind the apparent multiplicity of Nature, internal and external. They offer the road map to the destination and no more. The rest depends on how well the aspirant drives the vehicle of his body-mind composite unto the destined end.
I exhort all to read the four yogas of Swami Vivekananda which will keep them from getting deluded by charlatans doing the rounds and misleading people, and will help them to arrive at a synthetic view of the Philosophy Perennial, the Sanatana Dharma which is popularly known as Hinduism.
Given below are the web-links to the four yogas :
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Written by Sugata Bose
The phenomenal self is only a seeming reality. It has no essential existence. The ego is, thus, the impediment to the realisation of the absolute Self which is the witness of all of phenomena. This impediment will have to be removed. But how does one do it? The methods have been discovered ages ago and they form the body of our four yogas. They are Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga.
Swami Vivekananda has written his simplified versions of these yogas for easy understanding of everybody. Some of these are in the form of lectures delivered by him as in the case of Jnana Yoga while the others are his own writings on the remaining three yogas. The language is lucid and comfortable reading, the content the philosophical outflow of a realised soul and the authenticity, thus, beyond question or doubt whatsoever.
Yoga is the union of the individual soul with the universal soul as is commonly defined and commonly understood by the mind immersed in the dual mode of thinking. The four yogas aim at realisation of the underlying unity behind the apparent multiplicity of Nature, internal and external. They offer the road map to the destination and no more. The rest depends on how well the aspirant drives the vehicle of his body-mind composite unto the destined end.
I exhort all to read the four yogas of Swami Vivekananda which will keep them from getting deluded by charlatans doing the rounds and misleading people, and will help them to arrive at a synthetic view of the Philosophy Perennial, the Sanatana Dharma which is popularly known as Hinduism.
Given below are the web-links to the four yogas :
http://
http://
http://
http://
Written by Sugata Bose
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