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The Path of Meditation (Rāja-Yoga / Aṣṭāṅga)
The 'royal road': still the mind utterly, and the self stands revealed.
Rāja-yoga, the 'royal path,' is the way of systematic meditative discipline — essentially the eight-limbed yoga of Patañjali. Its method is to progressively calm and master the mind through ethical restraint, posture, breath-control, withdrawal of the senses, concentration, meditation, and absorption. The term 'rāja-yoga' became popular mainly in the modern period as a label for this classical system.
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- Bhagavad-gītāKuru-Pañcāla region · -150explains
- Haṭhayoga-pradīpikāKāśī (Varanasi) · 1450explains
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)
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