Knowledge

  • Mystic Powers Of The Yogi – Swami Vivekananda

    Mystic Powers Of The Yogi – Swami Vivekananda

    We have now come to the chapter in which the Mystic Powers of the Yogi have been described. This is the 3rd part of the Yoga Sutras (aphorisms) of Patanjali as explained by Swami Vivekananda. In the first two parts, Swami Vivekananda describes the spiritual uses of concentration. These are the first 51 sutras by…

  • Concentration: Its Practice – Swami Vivekananda

    Concentration: Its Practice – Swami Vivekananda

    The practice of concentration is the second part in Swami Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga and a continuation of the first part, which describes the spiritual uses of concentration. The first part has the first 51 sutras of Patanjali where the uses of concentration have been described. The second part discussed below has the next 55 sutras…

  • Concentration: It’s Spiritual Uses

    Concentration: It’s Spiritual Uses

    This post is from Swami Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga and includes the first segment of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras interpreted and translated by Swami Vivekananda. This chapter from Raja Yoga essentially lists the first 51 Yoga Sutras from Patanjali’s 195 Yoga Sutras. Swami Vivekananda has explained these Sutras through four separate chapters in the book. The first…

  • Concentration – Swami Vivekananda in Raja Yoga

    Concentration – Swami Vivekananda in Raja Yoga

    There is only one method by which to attain knowledge, that which is called concentration. The chemist in his laboratory concentrates all the energies of his mind into one focus, and throws them upon the materials he is analyzing, and so finds out their secrets. The astronomer concentrates all the energies of his mind and…

  • Knowledge and Perfect Bliss – Swami Vivekananda in Raja Yoga

    Knowledge and Perfect Bliss – Swami Vivekananda in Raja Yoga

    knowledge is the highest reward of knowledge. It will take away all our misery. When by analysing his own mind, man comes face to face, as it were, with something which is never destroyed, something which is, by its own nature, eternally pure and perfect, he will no more be miserable, no more unhappy. All…