Raja Yoga

Received The Concise Light on Yoga by B K S Iyengar - as shown in the picture. Seems to be another phenomenal book on the topic, however, just heads up may not be Raja Yoga by Yesudian

Originally published as Yoga Uniting East and West, or something like that ( and apparently re-titled by the publisher, somewhat misleadingly ) this work explains what yoga is ( essentially it is All Work, or Committed Development, that any one commits, growing their evolution or Realization of Ultimate Nature of Reality ). It identifies a number of different kinds of yoga ( body-centric Hatha yoga, heart-centre Raja yoga, hidden-energies Laya yoga, etc. ) & mentions that there are countless yogas. It shows the path of the East: the inner path of realization. . . It shows the path shown by Jesus: the community path of realization. . . It shows how combining these two ways-of-realizing is MUCH better than relying in only one or the other. It talks about how SOUL, or Atman, or God, is the ultimate reality, and all living beings are simply experiencing /their-own/ realization of it. It talks about how this Atman ( *my* preferred term: they use God or Christ ) is indestructible, immutable, unstoppable-in-realizing, and is the goal shown by "The Kingdom of God .. is Within!". It discusses the things about India that matter, that the West happens to be ignorant-of ( like how re-incarnation isn't a "religious belief", it's concrete experience! How can anyone go counter to concrete experience because some religion says one ought believe some arbitrary alternative?? ), and how the more subtly-refined Indians simply stay out of the way of coarse Westerners ( with our butcherous modes & conquering ways ), so we simply never even /met/ the esoteric India. . . I am not religious, so to some extent this was cloyingly written, to me, but it is one of the most profound & precious works I've ever known. Period. I hope they re-issue it, and pronto: our world NEEDS this one, it can feed one's heart deeply & profoundly .. IF one is old enough to know its meanings. . .