Swami Vivekananda

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Wednesday, November 09, 2022. 06:45. Volume-1. RAJA YOGAM CHAPTER VII DHYANA AND SAMADHI POST-8. ======================================================================= CHAPTER VII : DHYANA AND SAMADHI We have taken a cursory view of the different steps in Râja-Yoga, except the finer ones, the training in concentration, which is the goal to which Raja-Yoga will lead us. We see, as human beings, that all our knowledge which is called rational is referred to consciousness. My consciousness of this table, and of your presence, makes me know that the table and you are here. At the same time, there is a very great part of my existence of which I am not conscious. All the different organs inside the body, the different parts of the brain — nobody is conscious of these. When I eat food, I do it consciously; when I assimilate it, I do it unconsciousl

 ========================================================================= Devotees' Convention: Koyilandy, October 2022 On Oct 17, 2022  In Commemoration of the 125th Anniversary of the Ramakrishna Mission, Ramakrishna Math, Koyilandy organized a devotees’ convention on 16 October 2022. The convention commenced with Vedic prayers followed by invocatory songs and reading from Vachanamrita (Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna).  Swami Namratananda from Ramakrishna Mission, Coimbatore, and Swami Sarvabhadrananda from Ramakrishna Math, Chennai addressed the audience. 170 devotees participated in the convention. ======================================================================== Wednesday, November 02, 2022. 08:45. Volume-1. CHAPTER VI PRATYAHARA AND DHARANA POST-7. ======================================================================== CHAPTER VI - PRATYAHARA AND DHARANA : The next step is called Pratyâhâra. What is this? You know how perceptions come. First of all there are the external