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the other. You may stop one and practice the other for sometime and then decide which one you want to follow. I can't understand why people are reluctant to change the Guru. A Guru is taken for one's own spiritual progress. If he can't give you what you want, then you should seek for another person, of course, you should be respectful towards him but you should tell him that since he cannot give you what you want you are going to another person.
10. How do I begin Yoga?
Yoga begins not with you but with God.
11. Some say that if you take up Yoga, you may be faced with afflictions and calamities?
This is the view of the ignorant and weak minded persons alone which must never be accepted on practical grounds. Besides, as for myself I would say that if even the whole life is to be sacrificed for its sake, it is not much because thereby we shall be saved from hundreds of rebirths entailed with all miseries and sorrows.
12. What are the important factors on the path of Raja Yoga?
The most important factor in realisation is self confidence in our own capacity and power to achieve success. One of the essentials in the making of man engaged in the spiritual pursuit is moderation. Moderation is a characteristic of nature.
13.Rajayoga, does it mean renouncing worldly belongings, Master?
I do not mean to induce any one to give up his worldly belongings and bid farewell to his domestic living but only to attend to every thing in the sense of duty entrusted to him by the Divine Master.
1. RAJA YOGA teaches us the method to be identical with the Master of the real life. If one makes up ones mind to taste the nectar of real life, no power whatever, (Maya or anything) can check him off from his determination. We do not say that one may keep aloof from Maya, but that if one exercises oneself to be one with Him then the problem of life will be easily solved.