The noble king yoga in people's eyes is actually this

Raja Yoga is a type of yoga. If you are a friend who practices yoga from scratch, then you must know our Raja Yoga. There are many benefits to practicing Raja Yoga. It not only helps us relax our body and mind, but also helps to improve our energy and spirit. Having said so much, how much do you know about Raja Yoga?

Next, let's start with what is Raja Yoga! Many people say that Raja Yoga is a very noble yoga. Is it really like this?

Raja Yoga means yoga that is as exalted as a king. (Bhagavad-gita is called Rajavidya). It is the only way to the spiritual world. Raja Yoga focuses on mindfulness and breathing. Meditation is usually done using some asanas such as the lotus position, and most strict asanas are abandoned.

Raja Yoga actively advocates the eight limbs of yoga, namely, restraints, noble practices, sitting postures, breathing exercises, control of the senses, inner awakening, meditation, and samadhi.

When practicing Raja Yoga, one must start with meditation. Most of the postures in Raja Yoga are in the lotus position. These postures have a certain history, so practicing these postures is very beneficial!

It has been extremely refined, perfected and purified. When practicing meditation, one uses the mind to feel the movement of entities, control the flow of energy in the body, and generate different supernatural powers.

One-pointed gazing is a meditation practice often favored by yogis. It is usually performed in a quiet place, or by the mountains, forests, lakes or the sea, where the practitioner focuses attention on a fixed entity such as a statue of Krishna, candles, leaves, wild flowers, waterfalls, flowing water, etc.; completely immersing one's spirit in the infinite and deep silence.

Through regular practice, people can gain flexibility, balance, tenacity, great vitality and resistance to disease. It can also eliminate fatigue and calm nerves, thus giving people true peace and tranquility.

The Eight Stages of Raja Yoga

We generally divide the practice of Raja Yoga into eight stages, or eight branches. Now, let’s take a look at the eight of them!

1. Ban Yama

Also called external system. When you choose to practice Raja Yoga, enter a Hindu temple, or choose a teacher to follow, the teacher will give you the precepts.

The constraints given by the guru (meaning teacher) have been fixed in the process of thousands of years of Raja Yoga master-disciple inheritance, and they are: do not kill, do not lie, do not steal, do not commit adultery, and do not be greedy.

2. Internal Niyama

You should restrain yourself and control your behavior so that you can better follow the Guru in practice. Observe purity, contentment, austerity, study and recite the Vedas, and worship God.

3. Asnan

This is also the entry point of the mainstream Hatha school. In ancient India, yogis and Hindu sages believed that in order to love God, one must also love one's own body and soul.

Keeping the body clean is the most basic cleanliness, and such exercise will make the body healthier and cleaner, and more qualified to approach and serve God.

4. Pranayama

Yoga sages believed that only by controlling one's breathing can one better control one's thoughts and life. So there is a separate session for practicing advanced breathing techniques.

5. Pratyahara

Control your senses. The first four steps seem simple, but it becomes difficult to move forward from here.

How to bring your senses inward and observe your thoughts, breathing, and body more clearly. A deeper level is to simply shut off your senses when you have become proficient in the practice.

6. Focus on Dharana

Focus on your inner world, focus on your imagination of God, and focus on thinking about life.

7. Meditation on Dhyana

This does not mean taking a break to meditate, but rather it means being able to meditate at will, as if you are in a state of meditation. Of course, true traditional meditation is not based on situational meditation like it is now, but rather on meditating on the God one believes in.

8. Samadhi

The union of personal spiritual soul and God, supreme joy, the soul's stay and journey in another world. These are the traditional descriptions of samadhi. Samadhi is what we often call meditation in Buddhism.

Science has also conducted research on samadhi, and concluded that it is a state in which one enters a controllable vegetative state, in which personal time and thinking completely stop and metabolism decreases.