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		<title>Raja Yoga</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Palmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The royal road or the knowledge of the mind.

Yoga destroys mental barriers, as it says at the beginning of that ancient manuscript, The Yoga Sutras, written by Rishi Patanjali over 2300 years ago.
When you work with the mind and understand its laws, when in meditation you use methods which break down blocks in the mind, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citta</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Palmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indian Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affliction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognitive states]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concentration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner experience]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[purpose of yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restraint]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word Yoga which was formerly used in Vedic literature in the sense of the restraint of the senses is used by Patanjali in his Yoga sutra in the sense of the partial or full restraint or steadying of the states of citta. 
Some sort of concentration may be brought about by violent passions, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Yoga Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Palmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indian Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ananda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concentration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[external disturbances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impressions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[objective world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obstacles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[remembrance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the mind has become pure the chances of its being ruffled by external disturbances are greatly reduced. At such a stage the yogin takes a firm posture (asana) and fixes his mind on any object he chooses. It is, however, preferable that he should fix it on Ishvara, for in that case Ishvara being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raja yoga and psychoanalysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Palmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hatha Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga basic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aphorisms of yoga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Raja&#8217; means king and thus Raja Yoga is the &#8216;Kingly Yoga&#8217; or the &#8216;Royal Way&#8217; of Yoga. Our mind is the &#8216;King&#8217; in question, the master in our lives is the mind, and the control of mind is the primary concern of Raja Yoga.

Two thousand years old Patanjali&#8217;s &#8216;Yoga Sutras&#8217; is considered the classic text [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Success and Concentration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Palmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concentration - A Practical Course]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concentration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human progress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magnet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But, whatever you choose, one thing you will need in all things and at all times — concentration of purpose, of thought, of feeling, of action; so that this, like a powerful-magnet, will polarize everything with which you deal. In all the aims of life it is needed for success. 
The men who have succeeded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Higher Achievements</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Palmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concentration - A Practical Course]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstract subject]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concentration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[devotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distractions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[higher consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indifference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[line of thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quiet and still]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senses]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[single point]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the higher efforts and achievements of concentration of mind has been well described by Dr. Annie Besant in her book The Ancient Wisdom, in the following words:
“The student must begin by practicing extreme temperance in all things, cultivating an equable and serene state of mind; his life must be clean and his thoughts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Roads of Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Palmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concentration - A Practical Course]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concentration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conjunction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[precise reason]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Examples:
1. Milk — baby; pen — hand; ship — sea; spade — garden; fatigue — sleep; gluttony — indigestion.
2. Animal — dog; view — landscape; chair — table; red — blue; heat — cold.
3. Car — wheel; tree — root; house — door; root — branch; arm — leg.
4. Earth — round; coin — silver; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Practice of Recall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Palmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concentration - A Practical Course]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concentration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[four roads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We may now turn to the first exercise:
Exercise 1. 
Study the following diagram:

Copy it on a large sheet of paper and try to increase the number of arrows to 100. Write in a Road-nomination or reason for each arrow-word, in the manner shown in number-brackets on the diagram. If you cannot put in 100 at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aids to Concentration &#8211; Attention without Tension</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Palmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concentration - A Practical Course]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concentration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[odd times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[posture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time has gone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BEFORE you sit down to commence the practice of recall quietly but definitely decide what is to be your object of concentration and for how long you propose to sustain it. Sometimes people sit down and then begin to decide what to do; they start on one object and then change to another because they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Track of the Fish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Palmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concentration - A Practical Course]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concentrate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concentration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inclination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be it folly or wisdom, I must concentrate on some part of this world. Few men have the inclination and power to ignore it altogether. I must decide to pay attention to this thing or idea rather than that. For this purpose it is the little fish of attention that I have to control.
Put this [...]]]></description>
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