How To Be A Yogi

Table of Contents

PREFACE INTRODUCTORY WHAT IS YOGA? HATHA YOGA RÂJA YOGA KARMA YOGA BHAKTI YOGA JNÂNA YOGA SCIENCE OF BREATHING WAS CHRIST A YOGI?

In this book, Swami Abhedananda imparts his profound knowledge of the paths of yoga. He explains each path and gives the reader practical knowledge of breath work, meditative technique, and practice for spiritual evolution. "Thus constantly practicing discrimination and rising above all relativity and phenomenal appearances, a Jnana Yogi realizes the Absolute, Unchangeable, Eternal Truth in this life and ultimately becomes one with it; because Jnana Yoga declares that he who knows Brahman becomes Brahman, for the same reason that the knower of God can be no other than God himself. A Jnana Yogi never forgets that his true Self is Brahman. Having attained to this supreme God-consciousness, he lives in the world like an eternal witness of all mental and physical changes. Ever happy and undisturbed, he travels from place to place, pointing out to mankind the way to absolute freedom and perfection. A perfect Jnana Yogi, indeed, lives as the embodiment of the Absolute Divinity on this earth.”