Raja Yoga - by Swami Vivekananda, ZNAM I WIEM, SZTUKA WOJENNA, Księgozbiór Wielkiej Pradżni
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R
AJA
Y
OGA
rajyaeg
S
WAMI
V
IVEKANANDA
C
ELEPHAÏS
P
RESS
Issued by Celephaïs Press, somewhere
beyond the Tanarian Hills (
i.e.
Leeds, England), August
2003
E
.
V
.
Revised and corrected,
November 2003.
This work is in the public domain.
E
ACH SOUL IS POTENTIALLY DIVINE
.
T
HE GOAL IS TO MANIFEST THIS DIVINE
WITHIN
,
BY CONTROLLING NATURE
,
EXTERNAL
AND INTERNAL
.
D
O THIS EITHER BY WORK
,
OR WORSHIP
,
OR
PSYCHIC CONTROL
,
OR PHILOSOPHY
,
BY ONE
,
OR MORE
,
OR ALL OF THESE
—
AND BE FREE
.
T
HIS IS THE WHOLE OF RELIGION
.
D
OCTRINES
,
OR DOGMAS
,
OR RITUALS
,
OR
BOOKS
,
OR TEMPLES
,
OR FORMS
,
ARE BUT
SECONDARY DETAILS
.
PREFACE
S
INCE
the dawn of history, various extraordinary phenomena
have been recorded as happening amongst human beings.
Witnesses are not wanting in modern times to attest the fact
of such events, even in societies living under the full blaze of
modern science. The vast mass of such evidence is
unreliable, as coming from ignorant, superstitious, or
fraudulent persons. In many instances the so-called miracles
are imitations. But what do they imitate? It is not the sign
of a candid and scientific mind to throw overboard anything
without proper investigation. Surface scientists, unable to
explain the various extraordinary mental phenomena, strive
to ignore their very existence. They are, therefore, more
culpable than those who think that their prayers are answered
by a being, or beings, above the clouds, or than those who
believe that their petitions will make such beings change the
course of the universe. The latter have the excuse of
ignorance, or at least of a false system of education in their
childhood, which has taught them to depend upon such
beings for help, and this dependence has no become a part of
their degenerate nature. The former have no such excuse.
For thousands of years such phenomena have been
investigated, studied, and generalised, the whole ground of
the religious faculty of man has been analysed, and the
practical result is the science of
Raja Yoga
.
Raja Yoga
does
not, after the unpardonable manner of some modern
scientists, deny the existence of facts which are very difficult
to explain; on the other hand, it gently, yet in no uncertain
terms, tells the superstitious that miracles and answers to
prayers, and powers of faith, though true as facts, are not
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