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It is now recognized by physiologists that daily yoga meditation could play an extremely useful and beneficial part in our daily routine. In order to balance the intensity of our increasingly intensive and very active lives. The raja yoga meditation technique can help calm the mind and bring composure, it also enables one to centre ones mental power. The words of meditation and meditation techniques bought to you daily on this page are the words of the great raja yoga technician Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda is an expert in raja yoga and an exponent of the raja yoga meditation technique the highest yoga, the yoga of the mind. Swami Vivekananda passed away some years back and whilst a living raga yoga meditation teacher is preferable to the words of a dead teacher. This man was truly remarkable and his words have a resonance even today so many years after his demise. Swami Vivekananda's words convey exactly what he was trying to say. His mediations contain profound spirituality, his raja yoga meditations are alive with his power. So with out further a do take the first step now to improving your life, to becoming more connected to humanity in daily raja yoga meditation. Today's meditation
Your first step
( in mastering the raja yoga meditation technique )
The first step in the raja yoga meditation technique is to sit. Sit quietly for some time and let your mind run on. You simply wait and watch. Knowledge is the power says the proverb, and it is true. Until you know what the mind is doing you can not control it. Give it the rein. Many hideous thoughts may come into it, you will be astonished at what it is possible to think. But you will find each day the minds vagaries become less and the mind becomes calmer. Always start your daily raja yoga meditations in this manner.
Your second step
( in mastering the raja yoga meditation technique )
Now Think! The second step in the raja yoga meditation technique is to think. Think of your own body and see that it is strong and healthy. Your body is the best instrument you have. Think of your body as being as strong as adamant, and that with the help of this body you will cross the ocean of life. Freedom is never to be reached by the week. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.
Now Meditate
( Daily raja-yoga meditations )
The power of Ojas 41
The Yogis say that the part of the human energy which is expressed as sex energy, in sexual thought, when checked and controlled easily becomes channeled into Ojas.
Ojas is stored up in the brain and the more Ojas is in a mans brain the more powerful he is, the more intellectual and the more spiritual. One man may speak beautiful language and beautiful thoughts, but they do not express people. Another man speaks not beautiful language nor beautiful thoughts, yet his words charm; Every moment of his is powerful, that is the power of Ojas.
It is only the chaste man or woman who can make the Ojas rise and store it in the brain; that is why chastity has always been considered the highest virtue. That is why all the religious orders in the world which have produced spiritual giants you will always find absolute chastity insisted upon. There must be perfect chastity in thought, word, and deed.
(I. 69-70)
Introduction to Raja Yoga | Meditation | The Spirit of Man | Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda | Ethics by Spinoza
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