Raja-Yoga - 1.12. Swami Vivekananda : Chicago 1893
R K MATH : THRISSUR-Kerala CITY CENTRE BOOKSTALL INAGURATION : ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Wednesday, February 08, 2023. 06:00. Volume-1. POST-12. ========================================================================= PATANJALI'S YOGA APHORISMS : CONCENTRATION: ITS SPIRITUAL USE The Chitta is always trying to get back to its natural pure state, but the organs draw it out. To restrain it, to check this outward tendency, and to start it on the return journey to the essence of intelligence is the first step in Yoga, because only in this way can the Chitta get into its proper course. Although the Chitta is in every animal, from the lowest to the highest, it is only in the human form that we find it as the intellect. Until the mind-stuff can take the form of intellect it is not possible for it to return through all these steps, and liberate the soul. Immediate salvati...