Affirmation in Raja Yoga

The perception lesson ends with a heading naming a mantram or affirmation. Its speaker describes sensory channels as communication with the outer world and declares an intention to use them in mental development.

The character-building lesson uses the same paired label before a declaration about mental habits, character and strength. The two passages apply the form to different subjects: reception of information in one, asserted self-direction in the other.

Here affirmation names the rhetorical form of a first-person statement. This is distinct from the other library account of mantras and sympathetic vibration: these passages supply verbal declarations, not a demonstration of a physical effect caused by sound.