MIND, BODY, SPIRIT: MYSTICISM & SELF-AWARENESS. This text, is a comprehensive course on yoga and meditation. Reap the physical benefits of these age old teachings and find the joy in your soul. Included with this book is a CD containing: a guided yoga postures session, a guided meditation and an inspiring talk by Kriyananda on the art of meditation.

Swami Vivekananda wrote a book called Raja Yoga about how he rewrote Patanjali's Yoga Sutras for a Western audience. The book is called Raja Yoga. Raja Yoga was an instant hit and had a big impact on how people in the West thought about yoga. De Michelis says that Raja Yoga is the beginning of modern yoga, even though yoga has changed a lot since then. Raja Yoga has transcripts of Vivekananda's talks on "Raja Yoga" and his interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. It also has a "rather free translation" of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras with Vivekananda's commentaries, which was also a set of talks. It gives strange teachings to a group of cultists who were looking for "ideologically familiar forms of practical spirituality."

The four types of yoga are covered in length in the current book, along with its philosophy, psychology, and practise techniques. It provides a comparison of the four yogas, outlining their similarities and distinctions. By destroying the ego, karma yoga, also known as the yoga of selfless action, aims to address the issue of ignorance. We are tethered to this world by attachment because of the ego, which was born out of ignorance. The practise of bhakti yoga involves inward purification. Bhakti-central yoga's thesis is that love is the most fundamental human emotion. Love is cosmocentric and divinely inspired in its most pure form. Raja-yoga ignites the flame of awareness of the self within in order to reach the Divine.

Efficacy of Raja Yoga was written in the 1940s, today it is still a pioneering treatise for any seeker of the Truth. Ram Chandra brings Raja Yoga into the modern world through the simple practices of Sahaj Marg, and explains the central role of meditation in human evolution. For the first time in written history we find precise and scientific explanations of the three aspects of human existence: the Heart Region, which relates to life in this physical plane; the Mind Region, which relates to our subtle existence, especially the process of transcending ego; and the Central Region, which goes beyond the mind to the realm of the soul. Efficacy of Raja Yoga is a book to re-read along with one’s spiritual practice, as with each reading it as if another layer of ignorance has been peeled off, revealing more of our potential.

Raja Yoga, or Mental Development, by Yogi Ramacharaka the pseudonym of American attorney, occultist, author, and pioneer of New Thought William Walker Atkinson. The work was originally published in 1906 by the Yogi Publication Society. The work consists of a series of lessons, which originally appeared in a monthly format between October 1905 and Septembter 1906. They focus on using techniques such as meditation, retention of breath, and concentration to achieve ultimate goal of absorption into the cosmos. The work actually stands as a New Thought work rather than a strictly yogic one.