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2. Philosophy is the way of thinking, Yoga is the way of doing and Realisation is the way of undoing.
3. Unchanging condition is the true state. A man gets a condition of dead- aliveness when he goes so much away from worldliness that it appears to him as unreal as a dream to a man awakened from sleep. Complete negation is that in which we get so dissolved in God that we neither know ourselves nor Him. The object of Yogi is to get control over nature but he can get full and complete control over it only when he merges himself fully and completely in God.
4. True Bhakti is devoid of any physical or material desire. It is actuated with the real craving, a craving which when fulfilled does not give rise to another in its place but ends all cravings. It is in the true sense the reminiscence of the Homeland which is the final end of our journey.
5. Attachment with it may otherwise be interpreted as "constant remembrance" and that is what Bhakti implies in the true sense.
6. The real sacrifice is not to leave the job or office or retire to the forest, but to use your own self, that is needed in the true seeker.
7. It is striking to note that almost all the great teachers utilized THOUGHT POWER which is predominant in man. The governing principle of Raja Yoga is the Thought power.
8. Raja Yoga is a system or science followed by great Rishis and saints to help them in realising self or God. It is not a new religion. The kingly thing in us is thought which ultimately develops steering us to our goal.
9. Raja Yoga starts with meditation so that the individual mind may leave its habit of wandering about. One may even, meditate upon luminous truth or even upon a human form, a big soul or personality of calibre, provided he has selected such a Master as his guide. When one begins to love such a soul which becomes the object of his meditation, Nature's power then begins to run through him, for the great soul is endowed with such power.
10.Ramchandra's Rajayoga does not treat grihasta life as an impediment in the divine pursuit. It recognises that the worldly life and the Divine are in fact the two phases of natural life which must go together side by side in conjunction with each other. It is a process of give and take, do and feel and not read and


























































































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