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PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
The seventh center is at the top of the head. W reaches it, samadhi is attained. One becomes a knowe united with Brahman.
The study of raja yoga should be very helpful to minds have been warped by a conventional purita The danger of puritanism is that it inclines us to r functions and powers of the body as evil, and ot and powers as good, without seeing any relation two groups. Raja yoga reminds us that the mind-b one life-force. This force expresses itself in diff different levels of consciousness. It may impel a n picture, run a race, have sexual intercourse, or sa But it is always the same force, no matter where just as, in a department store, the same elevator the women's hats, the sports department, the fi the restaurant on the roof. Some people who ha misunderstood) Freud are apt to say sneeringly: nothing but repressed sex." And this remark is shock us into giving up religion in disgust. But have shocked Patanjali in the least, though he laughed at its stupidity. "Sex," he would have nothing but potential religion. Use the same higher purpose, and you will obtain enlightenme
According to raja yoga, the spinal column nerve-currents (ida on the left and pingala on th central passage which is called the sushumn kundalini is aroused, it passes up the sushum normally unspiritual persons, remains closed. I the centers of the navel, heart, throat, etc., Ra using physical terms to give the approximate po centers, which are actually situated within the sus
These centers are also often called “lotuses” i
