Raja-Yoga - 1.3.6 : Swami Vivekananda : Chicago 1893.
======================================================================== ======================================================================= Thursday,June 16, 2022. 07:30. Volume-1. Chapter-3. - Prana-6. ====================================================================== The ideal of the Yogi, the whole science of Yoga, is directed to the end of teaching men how, by intensifying the power of assimilation, to shorten the time for reaching perfection, instead of slowly advancing from point to point and waiting until the whole human race has become perfect. All the great prophets, saints, and seers of the world — what did they do? In one span of life they lived the whole life of humanity, traversed the whole length of time that it takes ordinary humanity to come to perfection. In one life they perfect themselves; they have no thought for anything else, never live a moment for any other idea, and thus the way is shortened for them. This is what is meant by concentration, ...