Raja-Yoga Quotes.

1. "Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!"
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga

2. "Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!"
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga

3. "Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself."
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga

4. "Pranayama. Stopping the right nostril with the thumb, through the left nostril fill in air, according to capacity; then, without any interval, throw the air out through the right nostril, closing the left one. Again inhaling through the right nostril eject through the left, according to capacity; practicing this three or five times at four hours of the day, before dawn, during midday, in the evening, and at midnight, in fifteen days or a month purity of the nerves is attained; then begins Pranayama."
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga

5. "The idea is, when a man receives a gift from another, his heart becomes impure, he becomes low, he loses his independence, he becomes bound and attached."
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga

6. "The next step is Asana, posture. A series of exercises, physical and mental, is to be gone through every day, until certain higher states are reached. Therefore it is quite necessary that we should find a posture in which we can remain long. That posture which is the easiest for one should be the one chosen."
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga

7. "there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean; and"
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga

8. "Uniformity is the rigorous law of nature; what once happened can happen always."
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga

9. "All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga — Samadhi."
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga

10. "Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it."
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga