Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 2) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on Raja Yoga at a retreat on the Four Yogas. This is part 2 of the lecture on Raja Yoga.

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0:00.0	O, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness until light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:16.0	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:25.5	The different yogas are all these different ways to remove the second arrow.
0:32.5	The real cause of suffering.
0:35.5	And each yoga has its own paradigm.
0:40.3	The way it sees the problem and the solution it offers.
0:44.9	The path of Bhakti says the problem is we do not have faith in God.
0:49.2	We do not have trust and surrender and love for God.
0:52.9	And the solution is Bhakti, devotion to God.
0:56.5	The way of karma.
0:57.9	Karma Yoga says our whole problem is this terrible attachment to body and mind and selfishness.
1:04.4	And the solution is to transform our lives, make it completely unselfish.
1:17.6	When the path of Raja Yoga, which we have taken up now, it says it's not so much a question of selfishness or unselfishness, not so much a question of believing something and not
1:22.6	believing something, faith or no faith.
1:24.6	Rather, we do not experience the reality as it is. We do not experience ourselves as pure consciousness which is not subject to the second arrow.
1:33.3	It is not even subject to the first arrow. If you are not subject to the first arrow, you are not subject to the second arrow also.
1:38.3	You are not a body, hence not subject to old age, disease and death.
1:43.3	You are not even the mind, not subject
1:45.8	to confusion, sorrow and disappointment. You are an immortal awareness, consciousness. You do not
1:52.8	know this, you do not see this, therefore all problems. Then why do we not see this? The result,
1:59.5	the answer is that the mind is disturbed, is constantly being thrown into waves
2:08.6	and it obscures what lies beneath or beyond the mind, the consciousness, our real nature.
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