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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
bother about it. But based on that only is all our sistachara. All our traditional folks talk about it, “Highly principled man and he is capable of doing asanas sir, he does pranayama for such a long time”. So what? All these take care of certain things which are connected to body and while it comes to perfection one is not able to manage it. There is certain amount of hectic effort to control which takes away all our life time. Instead Revered Lalaji pleaded with God to help us out of this situation. In our system we do not bother about pranayama, but we accept Pranahuti. In this process the Divine interferes, not because we are capable of compelling him, but by seeking his grace he is prepared to come.
That is, in our system of Rajayoga the first four steps of Ashtanga Yoga are attended to in a different manner than the ones’ traditionally prevailing so far. We start from the fifth step of Ashtanga Yoga, by taking up Pratyahara first and from then on through the steps of Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi we are enabled to reach our Goal of life.
Seeking the Grace of the God is nothing been new, it has been there for some thousands of years.
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