Way to yogic world

A human being has many shortcomings and flaws. But perhaps the greatest of all vices that brings one’s downfall or creates hurdles in life is one’s ego and emotional attachment.

A human being has many shortcomings and flaws. But perhaps the greatest of all vices that brings one’s downfall or creates hurdles in life is one’s ego and emotional attachment. It is pride that spoils one’s relation with others and makes one’s behaviour unrighteous. It is mental or emotional attachment that puts one in various bondages and bogs one down in the marsh of voices or the quagmire of ‘maya.’

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Yoga is the way to free such a person from this kind of bondage. And Raja Yoga enjoins upon man to dedicate himself to God. It demands man’s devotion, considering Him as the holiest, the mightiest and the most beautiful and merciful. Man’s inner feeling of complete surrender to Him brings him the meekness enough to understand the power and the will of God.

As a result of Raja Yoga, a man’s pride of erudition, worldly wisdom, riches, youth and vigour vanish away and he becomes humble, considerate and compassionate. And his love no more remains confined to his friends, relatives or to those whom he knows and likes them. The sphere of his love widens and takes the whole world in its range as he now considers the entire universe as his own family.

And this can happen if one practices Raja Yoga in its true spirit. A yogi has the capacity to serve mankind without any attachment or ego. He considers himself as a messenger of God and does all that God Himself would have done.

(Edited extracts from Illustration on Raja Yoga, Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa-Vidyalaya)