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THE POWERS OF THE MIND - Swami Vivekananda

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=============================================================================== Friday 23, 2024 05:30. (Delivered at Los Angeles, California, January 8, 1900) =============================================================================== All over the world there has been the belief in the supernatural throughout the ages. All of us have heard of extraordinary happenings, and many of us have had some personal experience of them. I would rather introduce the subject by telling you certain facts which have come within my own experience. I once heard of a man who, if any one went to him with questions in his mind, would answer them immediately; and I was also informed that he foretold events. I was curious and went to see him with a few friends. We each had something in our minds to ask, and, to avoid mistakes, we wrote down our questions and put them in our pockets. As soon as the man saw one of us, he repeated our questions and gave the answers to them. Then he wrote something on paper,

Raja-Yoga -( END) : Swami Vivekananda: Chicago 1893.

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================================================================ Friday, 26  Jan 2024 05:30. RAJA YOGA ================================================================ PATANJALI'S YOGA APHORISMS APPENDIX REFERENCES TO YOGA :  ================================================================ Shvetashvatara Upanishad CHAPTER II ================================================================ अग्निर्यत्राभिमथ्यते वायुर्यत्राधिरुध्यते । सोमो यत्रातिरिच्यते तत्र सञ्जायते मनः ॥६॥ 6. Where the fire is rubbed, where the air is controlled, where the Soma flows over, there a (perfect) mind is created. त्रिरुन्नतं स्थाप्य समं शरीरं हृदीन्द्रियाणि मनसा सन्निवेश्य । ब्रह्मोडुपेन प्रतरेत विद्वान् स्रोतांसि सर्वाणि भयानकानि ॥८॥ 8. Placing the body in a straight posture, with the chest, the throat and the head held erect, making the organs enter the mind, the sage crosses all the fearful currents by means of the raft of Brahman. प्राणान् प्रपीड्येह संयुक्तचेष्टः क्षीणे प्राणे नासिकयोच्छ्वसीत । दुष्

Raja-Yoga - continued - Swami Vivekananda: Chicago 1893.

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================================================================ Thursday, 21 Dec 2023 05:30. RAJA YOGA ================================================================ PATANJALI'S YOGA APHORISMS CHAPTER IV INDEPENDENCE CONTINUED =============================================================== 11. Being held together by cause, effect, support, and objects, in the absence of these is its absence. Desires are held together by cause and effect; (The causes are the "pain-bearing obstructions" (II. 3) and actions (IV. 7), and the effects are "species, life, and experience of pleasure and pain" (II. 13). — Ed.) if a desire has been raised, it does not die without producing its effect. Then, again, the mind-stuff is the great storehouse, the support of all past desires reduced to Samskara form; until they have worked themselves out, they will not die. Moreover, so long as the senses receive the external objects, fresh desires will arise. If it be possible to get rid of