Raja-yoga
The achievement of union with the Supreme Universal Spirit, by becoming the ruler of one's own mind by defeating its enemies.
Raja-Yoga ("Royal Yoga"): a late medieval designation of Patanjali's eightfold yoga-darshana, also known as classical yoga.
The designation raja-yoga, meaning "royal Yoga," is a compartively late coinage that came in vogue in the sixteenth century C.E. It refers specifically to the Yoga system of Pantanjali, created in the second century C.
vedic hymns and the rituals behind them) and Aranyakas ( are ritual texts specific to those who choose to live in seclusion in a forest hermitage) Classical Yoga: This label applies to the eight fold yoga also known as Astanga-yoga or Raja-yoga ...
^ See Swami Vivekenanda on Dhyana and Samadhi in Raja Yoga s:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Raja-Yoga/Dhyana And Samadhi/here.
^ Swami Prabhavananda and Christoper Isherwood, 1987, Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God, p. 133.
RAJA-YOGA: A system of Yoga generally taken to be the one propounded by Patanjali Maharishi, i.e., Ashtanga Yoga. Click here for a discourse on Raja Yoga/Ashtanga Yoga.
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The 195 aphorisms or sutras that comprise the Yoga Sutra, expound upon Raja-Yoga (the eightfold Yoga path). The Yoga Sutra is meant to be memorized as a means of internalizing its wisdom. The Eight Limbs of Classical Yoga are: 1) yama, or restraint, ...
The unitive discipline of the eight limbs, i.e., Raja-Yoga or Patanjala-Yoga
ASPARSHA YOGA
The unitive discipline of "noncontact," which is the nondualist Yoga propounded by Gaudapada in his Mandukya-Karika; cf. Sparsha-Yoga ...
"holy ghost" shaking and dancing and charismatic/pentacostal "mani-festations"; the Dionysian "revel"; QuakerismÕs and Shakerism's autonomic quaking and shaking; Tai Chi guided by chi itself; the shamanic trance-dance; BuddhismÕs and Raja-YogaÕs ...
Lord of the Truth; he is the guardian of the dharma, the law of the Truth, which is a condition of immortality, and therefore himself the guardian of immortality; in the later ideas [post-Vedic] he is the God of Death. 2. yama [in raja-yoga]: a rule ...
 See also: Yoga, Raja, Meditation, Breath, Hatha
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