RAJA YOGA STUDENT: “I have questions about ego and meditation on ego. Vedavyasa remarks that “the unqualified ego” is experienced in Sasmita Samadhi. I am often aware of how my delusional ego is trying to take some kind of artificial credit for anything and everything that I do, think, and feel. It often seems rather pathetic, and I am looking …
Excerpt from Lesson #63
STUDENT: “Here is a question on ajativada, or non-origination. To date, I have been understanding this to mean that existence is without beginning, in the causal sense. I’ve been thinking, in other words, that the term refers to the idea that we can never find a first cause for anything because anything caused will itself have been caused (and so on, back …
Excerpt from Lesson #61
STUDENT: “I have been contemplating the nature of sadhana as a means of dissolving past karma rather than a means of achieving self-realization. In the book, The Avadhut, you mention that goal-oriented and process-oriented sadhana are less than ideal. I had thought that sadhana is a means of quieting the mind in order to achieve a single focus, and ultimately …
Excerpt from Lesson #60
The Two Forms & Eight Main Types of Meditation Babaji’s commentary on Yoga Sutras 3.3 in the SRV Raja Yoga email class tad evarthamatranirbhasan svarupashunyam iva samadhih (tad, that; eva, the same; artha, place or object; matra, alone/single; nirbhasam, radiates; svarupa, essence; shunyam, empty; iva, as it were; samadhi, absorption). “When all places and objects become empty or equal, as …
Lesson 59
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Excerpt from Lesson #58
An excerpt from Babaji Bob Kindler’s Raja Yoga Email Class. The topic is the fifth limb of Yoga, Pratyahara, which requires the withdrawal of the senses and mind from objects. The final three limbs of Yoga (concentration, meditation, and Samadhi) are impossible without Pratyahara. Thus, this is the pivotal limb of Yoga, attaining which, the practioner begins to qualify him …