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Date Posted: 09:20:09 01/23/06 Mon
Author: kmd - 23 Nov 2005
Subject: Re: Take a look at this one....
In reply to: Sundarar - 23 Nov 2005 's message, "Re: Take a look at this one...." on 09:18:00 01/23/06 Mon


Kriyananda says chanting will not do it -- you neeed raja yoga to roast the chakras directly of the karmas as well as yama niyama and of course devotion

If you take the example of Papa Ramdas, I wonder if he practiced Raja Yoga. I have not read any where about Papa Ramdas's Sadhana consisting of Raja Yoga practices.

Papa Ramdas's Sadhana consisted of continuously chanting the name of Rama and looking upon everything in the world as forms of Rama and to accept everything that happened as happening by the will of Ram alone.

He too attained Nirvikalpa Samadhi and there is a discussion on this in an earlier posting in this board.
http://www.voy.com/110742/1341.html
http://www.sivanandadlshq.org/saints/papa_ramdas.htm

In the Section on Japa yoga in his book "Self Knowledge" Swami Sivananda says

..... Japa is a marvellous divine soap for the mind. Japa gives a nice refreshing, exhilarating spiritual bath. It wonderfully washes the subtle body or Linga Sarira or astral body. It cleanses it of its various kinds of impurities. Japa purifies the heart. Japa steadies the mind.

..... Japa develops Prema and unites the devotee with the Lord. Japa brings God-consciousness. Japa awakens Kundalini and bestows eternal bliss.

......There is a mysterious power in the Name. There is an inscrutable Sakti in God’s Name. All the divine potencies are hidden in Lord’s Name.

..... The divine Name will eradicate the disease of birth and death and bestow on you Moksha, liberation or Immortality.
http://www.dlshq.org/download/selfknowledge.htm

From the example of Papa Ramdas and teachings of Swami Sivananda, Japa alone should do it -- maybe you do not need Raja Yoga !

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