Raja-Yoga - 1.10. Swami Vivekananda : Chicago 1893.
========================================================================= Sunday, January 22, 2023. 06:00. Volume-1. PATANJALI'S YOGA APHORISMS : POST-10. ========================================================================= INTRODUCTION : 1. Before going into the Yoga aphorisms I shall try to discuss one great question, upon which rests the whole theory of religion for the Yogis. It seems the consensus of opinion of the great minds of the world, and it has been nearly demonstrated by researches into physical nature, that we are the outcome and manifestation of an absolute condition, back of our present relative condition, and are going forward, to return to that absolute. This being granted, the question is: Which is better, the absolute or this state? There are not wanting people who think that this manifested state is the highest state of man. Thinkers of great calibre are of the opinion that we are manifestations of undifferentiated being and the differentiated state is hig...