Rāja yoga
This article is about the highest form of yoga according to various traditions. For Patanjali's yoga, see Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. For the concept from which the Yoga Sutras were derived, see Yoga (philosophy).
In Sanskrit texts, Rāja yoga (/ˈrɑːdʒə ˈjoʊɡə/) was both the goal of yoga and a method to attain it. The term was later adopted as a modern label for the practice of yoga when Swami Vivekananda gave his interpretation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in his 1896 book Raja Yoga. Since then, Rāja yoga has variously been called aṣṭāṅga yoga, kingly yoga, royal yoga, royal union, sahaja marg, and classical yoga.
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