Yoga Life Book
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2. SATYA - TRUTHFULNESS

CROWN OF LIFE Raja Yoga (The truth of who we are) The royal road to re-integration

A Raja yogin is not expected to take things for granted or to blindly accept an authority, scriptural or otherwise. There’s is essentially a path of self-experiment. Humankind, according to Raja yoga is a layered entity and is clothed in so many folds one within the other all of which form koshas or veils covering the Atman or true self. Within these lies the crest jewel of being itself the ever abiding self underneath the phenomenal personality. Thus complete liberation (mukti) consists in complete release from the countless finitizing processes enveloping the infinite ocean of creative life principle so as to have all power, all life, all wisdom, all joy, all bliss and everything else in its fullness. In other words it means tearing down the personality or mask which an actor dons when he comes on the stage to play his roll. The job of a Raja yogin then, is to unmask the reality within them by removing the numberless masks or false identifications, and thereby to separate the great self from the enshrouded sheaths by which it is encumbered.

Ashtang Yoga or the eightfold path of Patanjali leads to what is commonly known as Raja Yoga.

By Kirpal Singh

“Truthfulness is the first pillar in the temple of God-realization. Truth is the Gateway to the Kingdom of God consciousness. Truth is like a ladder. It leads you to the Kingdom of Immortal Bliss”

BLISS DIVINE by Swami Sivananda

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