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Rajayoga - A New Interpretation All India Radio Talk at Hyderabad on 30-7-1967.
The way of union with the Divine Reality is called Yoga. Raja yoga utilises divine thought of the super-finest kind to bring about this union. Since thought is verily the sovereign fact about reality this method is called Raja yoga.
Patanjali's Yoga implies this, but does not lay it out in clearest terms as it was intended to be imparted by the teacher or instructor. It also emphasizes only the suppression and control and the final eradication of human thought and its modifications. The most disturbing feature of the latter is its persistent disturbing nature. It has become the root cause and effect of tensions, emotional, intellectual and physical. Man has been trying several recipes for getting rid of his stream of thoughts, which disturb his peace, and Raja yoga became one of them. Its main help was negative. But even this became difficult, for, the human mind refuses to be suppressed and repressed. It is this that made for the positive approach of securing Divine thought to effect it.
The ancient yogis of the bye-gone past had known that this Divine thought could be sought and brought down by appropriate means - through surrender to the supreme God who is the Guru of all mankind. No human effort of any kind could bring about this union or bring down the Divine thought. God himself, or one who has already secured his connection or link or yoga with Him alone, could do this.
Human methods of approach have been in the main negative. They have firstly been wrong in the aspirations for a happy earthly and economic life. They have moved to the opposite extreme of denying all earthly and social life. Renunciation or escape from life was counselled as the condition for securing the divinest thought. Mere knowledge as a quality of thought was also held to be sufficient. But the ancient discovery that it was the breath or life-force, the prana or pranasya prana was not followed up. Therefore it does not feature prominently in the later yogic systems, which consider