{"id":32494,"date":"2023-12-13T09:45:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.0.30.127\/blogs\/satsangs\/?p=32494"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:15:24","slug":"raja-yoga-the-royal-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohanji.org\/blogs\/satsangs\/ask-mohanji\/raja-yoga-the-royal-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Raja Yoga – The Royal Path"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The Raja Yoga path is important to understand and is not an easy path.\u00a0At the beginning of the journey in the path of Raja Yoga, the royal path, is self-acceptance<\/strong>. We may think it\u2019s very simple. I can accept myself, and the path is on or open. But try self-acceptance; you\u2019ll know it\u2019s the toughest.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

You can accept other people more easily, but to accept yourself is very difficult, extremely difficult.\u00a0Self-acceptance is number one. Number two is awareness. There are three aspects of awareness \u2013 be aware, alert and active<\/strong>. That means no absentmindedness. Is it possible?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The path is very simple. It\u2019s all very simple techniques. Self-acceptance is the beginning and the end until you complete your journey. It\u2019s only through self-acceptance that you can evolve. If you start criticizing yourself \u2013 how do you know you\u2019re criticizing yourself? Easy to know. You\u2019re criticizing other people. If you\u2019re criticizing other people, you\u2019re actually very critical of yourself; it\u2019s a clear sign. These are very tiny, little, and easy benchmarks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Our path is so simple, and then awareness.\u00a0Awareness is the main understanding of what you are<\/strong>. Always awake \u2013 it means you\u2019re always awake to the truth of the time, the present time. You\u2019re aware of what\u2019s going on. That means your mind is right here. When we live our life, our mind is here. Then, be alert.\u00a0You should always be alert and the mind ready for action, ready for whatever is coming.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Destiny keeps throwing situations at you; if we are absent-minded, it\u2019ll hit you in your face. If you\u2019re always alert, you can tackle everything in life. That means your acceptance level automatically becomes high; it goes up.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Be active;<\/strong>\u00a0you should always be active. That means you have no\u00a0tamas<\/em>, zero\u00a0tamas<\/em>, inertia, or procrastination.<\/strong>\u00a0You don\u2019t waste your time analysing, complaining, criticising, and judging. You won\u2019t waste your time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Role of the Guru<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What\u2019s the Guru\u2019s role? As Subhashree said, the Guru has a major role here as somebody who has attained it. The Guru is your benchmark. \u2018That\u2019s the consciousness I\u2019m looking at. That\u2019s where I\u2019m going, not the person.\u2019 Please don\u2019t confuse the Guru with the person, but a person could be a representation of that state.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Guru is a state<\/strong>;\u00a0a person who has attained that state is everything for you.<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s how Hanuman attained all his powers. His connection to Ram was unshakeable. Whatever happened in the world, his connection to Ram was unshakeable; he got\u00a0ashta siddhis\u00a0<\/em>(eight powers) and\u00a0nava nidhis\u00a0<\/em>(nine divine treasures), everything. Just remember: just be aware, alert, and active.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Self-acceptance and awareness are very important. Then time, space, emotions, and situations have no value; zero value. What\u2019s their value? Only entertainment value. When you\u2019re living your life, going through situations, and through the emotions, they\u2019re all just entertainment. They\u2019re all just part of the drama of life.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Whenever we start criticising, we\u2019re criticising ourselves. Whenever we judge people, we\u2019re judging ourselves.<\/strong>\u00a0Whenever we aren\u2019t accepting others or people or situations around us, we have a conflict within ourselves. When this is very clear, Raja Yoga is very easy. That\u2019s why I said the Raja Yoga path is very simple and very tough because to practise something is very easy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

If I give you a meditation to practise, that\u2019s okay; that\u2019s very easy. To evolve by connecting to yourself and beautifying yourself is extremely difficult. This is called the path of fire.\u00a0This Raja Yoga path is called the path of Shiva, the path of fire. Why is it called so? Because here you\u2019re always on your toes: alert and aware.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Key teachings of Raja Yoga<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

You need to be completely happy when you\u2019re going through happiness or situations of happiness. Your every cell is rejoicing. When you\u2019re going through bouts of sadness, your every cell is experiencing sadness. That means you don\u2019t come back. Every situation is experienced 100 per cent, so the recurrence will be less. How can the recurrence happen? When we don’t break that pattern.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This means that when we are happy, we are kind of in the mind saying, \u201dOh no, this happiness won\u2019t stay, or is going to be long, with sadness around the corner.\u201d When we\u2019re sad, we want to be happy. In every situation, we\u2019re pushing it away. What happens? Everything is postponed. This means everything is pending. When all these things are pending, life gets repeated. That\u2019s what happens.\u00a0Everything has to be experienced through acceptance; you\u2019re flowing.<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s what this path is exactly about.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Empowered 5.0 is coming up, focusing on \u2018Making Masters.\u2019 It\u2019s not about teaching some techniques. It\u2019s very easy to teach techniques. I can teach you thousands of techniques, but for what? You may get addicted to a technique. You\u2019ll have to get connected to \u2018you\u2019; only then can you become a master.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Action should be pure.\u00a0What\u2019s pure action? Action without expectation.<\/strong>\u00a0More and more actions without expectation happen, and life itself is enhanced. Life becomes purer. What you think is unachievable will come in your hand, plate, and platter. That\u2019s because we\u2019ve accepted ourselves and decided that this path, this way, is us. We\u2019re the way; we\u2019re the path. That\u2019s understood. These are a few things that you should always remember.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It\u2019s not about the other person or the situation; it\u2019s about people. We go through all these situations, so why do we have a conflict? Mostly, it\u2019s because of our identity. We identify ourselves as this person or personality. That\u2019s the problem. The identification and other connections like me and my job, my family, my property and my society \u2013 me is the whole thing. If you\u2019re reinforcing the personality aspect too much, everything leads to calamities, both pleasure and pain. These are all important, fundamental things connected to the Raja Yoga path.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Steadfastness is the key<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

From what I\u2019ve seen, two types of people immediately get attracted to this path. This is my experience in the last ten years. One type is the beings who have come from other\u00a0lokas<\/em>\u00a0(worlds). They\u2019ve come to earth, experienced the human body, lived here long enough, and taken multiple births. Finally, they know it\u2019s time to go back, or they want to really return. These are the kinds of people who immediately gravitate towards the Raja Yoga path.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The other type of people are people who lived in other\u00a0yugas\u00a0<\/em>(eras), like in Treta Yuga (Shri Rama\u2019s time), Dwaapar Yuga (Shri Krishna\u2019s time), or different times. They\u2019ve come to the Kali Yuga, our time. They also want to return, or they want to elevate themselves. These are the two types of people who\u2019ll never leave. People who\u2019ve found the path and know that this is the path will never leave.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

A lot of people are born only in this Kali Yuga time, and their basic traits, expression or orientation is unconscious. They\u2019re always sense-oriented, looking for sensory pleasures. They\u2019re possession-oriented; they like to control or capture things, me and mine. All these wars are waged by such people. Evolved beings don\u2019t wage wars or torture animals in laboratories and dairy farms. Who is doing these things? They are beings who are insensitive. These are Kali Yuga-born people. Those people may not find it interesting in the Raja Yoga path. They walk in, and they\u2019ll go out also. They\u2019ll not stay. This is my experience.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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People who come from other\u00a0lokas<\/em>\u00a0(worlds) or people who\u2019ve come from other\u00a0yugas<\/em>\u00a0(eras) will definitely stay in the Raja Yoga path.\u00a0They\u2019ll never leave. This is the path that will take them back to where they came from.<\/strong>\u2013 Mohanji<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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People who come from other\u00a0lokas<\/em>\u00a0(worlds) or people who\u2019ve come from other\u00a0yugas<\/em>\u00a0(eras) will definitely stay in the Raja Yoga path.<\/strong>\u00a0They\u2019ll never leave. This is the path that will take them back to where they came from.\u00a0<\/strong>Understand that if somebody says, \u201cOh! this is not my cup of tea,\u201d it\u2019s fine. It\u2019s okay because they may not be able to do anything here. Self-acceptance will be impossible for them. They can\u2019t do it. Likewise, being alert and aware isn\u2019t possible when they like absentmindedness, an unconscious state. People who like intoxication, which is basically taking you to unconsciousness, will not have anything to do here. We\u2019re looking at fully conscious people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Focus on being alert, aware and active<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Raja Yoga path is taking you to a fully conscious state<\/strong>,\u00a0being alert, aware, active, and fully conscious.<\/strong> With intoxications that are making you unconscious, that\u2019s not the path. Hallucinatory things that take you high and then drop you back down are not our path. Understand that. Violence doesn\u2019t sit here; violence can\u2019t happen. Violence isn\u2019t connected to higher evolution.\u00a0Violence is connected to lower emotions<\/strong>. It\u2019s not connected to evolution; it\u2019s connected to emotions. That doesn\u2019t sit here. We have to be clear; this is a very powerful path.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I can\u2019t even begin to explain how powerful it is. You got to walk; there\u2019s no way. Nobody carries you.\u00a0The path strengthens you; the Guru strengthens you and empowers you to go further<\/strong>. Nobody is going to tell you, \u201cLook here, I\u2019ll give you this enlightenment.\u201d Enlightenment happens when you\u2019re detached from your bindings, fully conscious and unbound. When you\u2019re unbound, it\u2019ll show in your life as freedom; connect as freedom from within. When you\u2019re unbound from your mind, it shows. You don\u2019t need to prove to anybody; it shows \u2013 unbound freedom. This is visible.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\"mohanji-awareness\"<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When you\u2019re evolving, you\u2019ll know that feeling that you\u2019re detaching from your mind, your sense of objects, and your orientation. To a great extent, your desire pattern changes. When you\u2019re evolving to a level where you are completely yourself, which means not what your mind is projecting, not the personality, but when you are truly yourself, you\u2019ll feel tremendous power. A state of being fully Shiva \u2013 still. Nothing affects you; that powerful. That\u2019s the Raja Yoga path, like Lord Dattatreya \u2013 living, walking Avadhootas. That\u2019s why we respect them. Sai Baba \u2013 a great Avadhoota in every aspect.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What\u2019s Ganesha? We see mostly three idols in our ashrams;\u00a0Lord Ganesha is the awareness of consciousness \u2013 fully conscious, always aware of who he is.<\/strong>\u00a0We have the gross on one side and the subtle on the other; when they marry each other, we call it life. When they separate from each other, we call it death. Very simple!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The journey from gross to subtle<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This whole awareness, the whole spiritual journey, is from being gross to being subtle.<\/strong>\u00a0From\u00a0sthula<\/em>\u00a0(gross), the awareness shifts to the subtle. The subtle energises, not the\u00a0sthula<\/em>, the gross. Without the subtle, the gross cannot function or is not alive. When our focus, our orientation, is shifting more and more slowly to the subtle, we feel expansion and freedom more and more. Society may not understand this freedom or the free man. They think freedom is freedom of the mind to go anywhere, do whatever you like, etc.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Many great free people are sitting in jails, but they\u2019re unaffected by prisons because they are free. They\u2019re not worried about the space they\u2019re occupying. They\u2019re not worried about anything. Nothing! This is very important to understand.\u00a0Being free is very important; that\u2019s an inside story<\/strong>; It\u2019s inside us. Nobody can tell you, \u201cOkay, now you do this and be free.\u201d It\u2019s not like that; it\u2019s a constant practice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Travel from this shore, which is gross, to that shore, which is subtle, and these two shores are together as life. When they\u2019re separated, it\u2019s death. While we\u2019re living, we should make the shift from gross to subtle; that\u2019s the beauty. Then, when you\u2019re living as subtle, you may not move to gross. When you\u2019re living, that\u2019s the time when you shift from gross to subtle. That means, from the physical mind, intellect, and ego to that which energises all this, that energy you can call soul or spirit. Shift to that; start experiencing that at work. Then, eventually, when you leave the body, when you die, you\u2019re leaving as that, not as gross.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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This whole awareness, the whole spiritual journey, is from being gross to being subtle.<\/strong>\u00a0Gross means personality<\/strong>.\u00a0Subtle means what activates the personality<\/strong>.\u2013 Mohanji<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Gross means personality<\/strong>.\u00a0Subtle means what activates the personality<\/strong>. You move as subtle energy. When you go, die, or leave as subtle, you may not even want to come back and take another personality because you\u2019re already disconnected from your personality. This is what I\u2019m trying to do exactly in the Empowered programs because what we need are masters, not just people who practise.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Practice is more for alignment, concentration, and focus<\/strong>. For that, you need practise; you need discipline.\u00a0Discipline is extremely important so that you\u2019re stable<\/strong>, in one part.\u00a0Determination is even more important to evolve in this life<\/strong>. To go back to the pattern is very easy. Just do what comes to your mind and keep doing it. That\u2019s enough to entertain patterns. Today, the main pattern is our addiction to food; that\u2019s the main pattern.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

One of the greatest addictions today is a mobile phone<\/strong>. You cannot live without it. Our whole focus is on this rectangular screen; that\u2019s where we live and die. What are we carrying, then? Images that are useless in the mind. This is what happens.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It\u2019s important to empty everything.\u00a0The mind should be empty.<\/strong>\u00a0There\u2019s no activity; there\u2019s nothing; you\u2019re completely empty and free. When you\u2019re moving, you\u2019re moving, walking, talking power; walking, talking Shiva. That\u2019s what we should move exactly. Otherwise, it\u2019s about the mind that\u2019s complaining. My mind is not good today; I\u2019m tired today; I don\u2019t have a mood today; this is our state most of the time. That\u2019s because we\u2019re addicted to activities.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We\u2019re slaves to our minds.\u00a0The<\/strong>\u00a0mind is a great servant but a very bad boss<\/strong>. A great servant because if you use your mind well, you can attain the powers. But if you allow your mind to take over, you\u2019ll always be complaining; you\u2019ll be hating all these nonsense things which are completely useless for evolution.\u00a0Emotions are absolutely useless for evolution<\/strong>\u00a0because emotions are not permanent.<\/strong>\u00a0They\u2019re temporary; they come and go.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Spiritual maturity<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We talk about spiritual maturity. Imagine somebody is talking and criticising other people. They\u2019re not spiritually mature. Imagine somebody saying, \u201cBecause of that person, I got affected.\u201d They\u2019re not spiritually mature. It\u2019s easy to understand.\u00a0Spiritual maturity simply means you\u2019re happy with whatever happens, and you are stable inside.<\/strong>\u00a0Externally, whatever happens, it\u2019s not affecting you. If you reach that state, you\u2019re very stable spiritually. You\u2019re mature in spirituality, and from there, you\u2019ll automatically evolve further, and nobody can touch you, shake you or stir you. This is what you should remember when you walk the Raja Yoga path.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I explained so much because it\u2019s important to know what you\u2019re doing and what you\u2019re walking for. It\u2019s not like the feel-good factor of applying an ointment on top of the cancer; it\u2019s not like that. It\u2019s actually removing the cancer completely and purifying that space because everything we\u2019ve collected and stored eventually becomes cancerous. It\u2019s important to stay clear and always stay pure. That\u2019s why we have tremendous charity activities,\u00a0annadaan<\/em>\u00a0(food donation) and all.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The Raja Yoga path is everything. We have Bhakti; we have temples. We have Jnana; the knowledge, what we\u2019re doing now, and Karma Yoga is serving the poor. This is all included in the Raja Yoga path. Every aspect is getting completed. Completion! Yes, completion; that\u2019s what life is all about \u2013 total completion. That\u2019s what life is for. That\u2019s what we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Raja Yoga path is everything. Bhakti Yoga is easier because there\u2019s some object outside you can connect to; it\u2019s very easy. Jnana Yoga is easy because there\u2019s knowledge outside that you can chew. Then, Karma Yoga is also easier because you\u2019re serving the world outside. There\u2019s always something outside.\u00a0With<\/strong>\u00a0Raja Yoga, everything is inside. Self-acceptance is inside; awareness is inside.<\/strong>\u00a0All these things are inside. That\u2019s not easy, but if you start walking, it\u2019s very powerful.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

That\u2019s why I said many people who are only born in Kali Yuga may not even like it. They\u2019ll not understand it. They can easily connect to something outside, and they\u2019re happy, but when they come to the Raja Yoga path, it\u2019s not easy because this is a path of fire for them. But, as I said, two types of people will never leave: one has come from other\u00a0lokas<\/em>, other worlds, and one has evolved from other\u00a0yugas<\/em>\u00a0or other eras. These people will not leave. They have found gold already. Others, if they go, it\u2019s fine. Thank them, bless them and love them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Taken from Satsang\u00a0after 41 days of meditation Love Beyond Dimensions<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Watch the satsang\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Transcribed by\u00a0Seema Jamakhandi<\/em>
Proofread by Eric Elbers<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Quotes on Raja Yoga<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n


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