- Raja Yoga – way is the way of transcendence, the fourth way. Neither consciousness changes the content, nor the content changes consciousness. Nothing changes, nothing. All is as it is with no change. Content is there, consciousness is here, and no change is happening. No effort to change is there.
- With all the three paths Karma, Gyan, and Upasana yoga something remains in the mind that has to be done. With the fourth, Raja yoga all becoming disappears. You simply accept whatsoever is. In that acceptance is transcendence. In that very acceptance you go beyond. You remain just a witness. You are no longer doing anything here, you are just-being here.
- One who practises Raja Yoga knows well: The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
- Raja Yoga is a journey from body to soul, effort to effortlessness. Raja Yoga uses physical postures and prana primarily as a means to achieve higher states of consciousness. Prana brings effect when the body is working on a cause. When cause and effect is in the same moment Grace comes as a flowering of your being. Grace is the total effect of all these qualities: silence, peace, love, compassion, blissfulness, ecstasy.
- By practising Yoga asana brings grace of the body, because only in a graceful body a graceful mind exists; and only in a graceful mind a graceful self becomes possible; and only in a graceful self, the beyond. Grace comes as a flowering of your being. The UPANISHAD prays, “Let my senses be strengthened, so I can penetrate your mystery.” Verse 18.14
- Being in contact with the body means a deep sensitivity. Sensitivity is not attachment or indulgence, sensitivity is awareness. Only an aware person can be sensitive. If you are not aware you will be insensitive.
- The body and the mind are not separate from each other, they are connected. The body and the mind are not separate – they are together, a body-mind; it is psychosomatic. In deep sensitivity one can see the gap between body and mind. Because the body is natural, your mind is societal; the body belongs to this vast nature and your mind belongs to your society, your particular society, age and time.
- Pranayam never means breath control. It simply means the expansion of the vital energy. Prana-ayam: prana means the vital energy hidden in breath, and ayam means infinite expansion. It is not breath control. But activating our dormant energy through the simple process of breathing.
- Prana knows how to be in tune with their own energy they are gifted with. They know how to dissipate it or disintegrate it unconsciously but they don’t know how to tap it, turn it on, ride on it – to live an energetic life of inner richness. It is a very precious gift given to us by God or Existence.
- Effort to Effortlessness: This is the rhythm of life: make effort so you can be effortless also. Strain to the very end so that you can achieve moments of non-strained consciousness. Run as fast as you can so that when you sit, you really sit. Be exhausted in effort so when you rest, it is a real rest. Effort belongs to man, grace belongs to the divine. Effort is your doing; grace is your waiting – not your action. Effort is what you do, effort is where you succeed or fail. Grace is where you don’t exist, where only the divine is. And there; there is no way that you can be unsuccessful.
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