Sunday, July 5, 2015
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The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali teach the practice of yoga and meditation — Raja Yoga. You can learn, step-by-step, how to control your mind and achieve inner peace and freedom. According to Patanjali, liberation is possible without involving a Personal God (the jnani’s path). Yet, Swami Prabhavananda’s translation of and commentary on Patanjali (“How to Know God”) also says, “Devotion to a personal ideal of God … sweetens the dryness of intellectual discrimination and calls forth the highest kind of love of which man is capable.”