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SRI RAMCHANDRA’S RAJAYOGA – THE NEW DARSANA
something that we find in earlier expositions of the system of yoga.
His system of Rajayoga is called so by him because it is dependent on the Thought force which is something that is common between humanity and the original stir of Kshob or Divinity. As a matter of fact, Yoga or union with the Divine is possible for man only because of this sharing or parallel nature between the two. Rajayoga is not called so because it is something that is practised by the kings of the olden days, nor is it king among the yogas (which however it is), but is called so because it uses the kingly thing in man i.e. thought to get back to the source from which it has taken its origin i.e. Divinity itself. This kingly thing in man, thought is what makes the existence possible (it is the essential nature of all beings to share this kshob). It is the real Prana or Pranasya Prana. However, it is not all thought that is entitled to be called so but the thoughts emanating from the mind of the person who is not burdened with those of veils of ego, buddhi and ahankar. That such a possibility exists is, what was known from the Vedic periods, but the actual position and the simplicity of the matter under consideration was not revealed earlier to humanity.
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