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Yoga: Rāja Yoga
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Key words nowadays associated with Rāja Yoga are inwardness, mind control, purity, peace, bliss, meditation, easiness, being ancient, and authenticity – all of them supposedly representative of “classical” Yoga (Pātañjala Yoga) as canonized in the
Yogasūtra attributed to Patañjali. Thus, “Rāja Yoga” falls in the domain of “Yoga” no less than of “Haṭha Yoga” and “modern
yoga”. Besides the literal meaning of the term ("Royal
Yoga"), tradition knows the (linguistically wrong) etymological derivation from
rajas ([menstrual] blood). By its claim to superiority, “Royal
Yoga” implie…
Date:
2020-05-18
