Page 25 - Efficacy of Raja Yoga

THE PRACTICE OF SRI
RAMCHANDRA’S RAJA YOGA
AND ITS EFFICACY
K.C.NARA Y ANA
I
The word Rajayoga is derived from the identifying the kingly thing in man. It is now well known that ‘thought’ is the kingly thing in man. But this simple fact was first realised by a saint who lived about 80 generations before King Dasaratha the father of the Avatar Sri Rama. This becomes necessary to identify this, mainly because man is essentially an animal as any other but with two well- developed faculties of thinking (reasoning) and capacity to express feelings. The word Yoga means union or rather feeling of union. Let us clearly understand that the root ‘yuj’ in Sanskrit means to unite. In Rajayoga the feeling of union is what is aimed at through the process of thought. All forms of Rajayoga are meant only for that. Yoga is union and we are trying to use thought forces.
Modern world has, apart from taking away all other things from us has also taken away the