Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Universal Self
The character-building passage contrasts the little personal self with a Universal Self of which the individual is said to be a part. It asks the student to bring that wider identity into everyday circumstances, treating another person as another portion of the One Life. The following page relates individual strength to the expression of the Ego through will and mental habits. The wider identity is therefore connected to daily conduct rather than presented only as a remote metaphysical subject.
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The source account
LiteraryThe character-building passage contrasts the little personal self with a Universal Self of which the individual is said to be a part. It asks the student to bring that wider identity into everyday circumstances, treating another person as another portion of the One Life.
The surrounding teaching
LiteraryThe following page relates individual strength to the expression of the Ego through will and mental habits. The wider identity is therefore connected to daily conduct rather than presented only as a remote metaphysical subject.
Context & interpretation
This entry follows the supplied Raja Yoga or Mental Development edition attributed to Yogi Ramacharaka. Its spiritual and psychological models are historical teachings, not independent verification of their mechanisms or promised results.
Original passages
Source 1
Raja Yoga or Mental Development
fix your mind on the Universal Self of which you are a part.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Raja Yoga or Mental Development; printed page 271
Short quotation transcribed from the supplied scan; source passage read in context.
- Edition
- IMJ-0204-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0204-E001-P0279
- Original scan leaf
- 280
- Recorded leaf number
- 280
- Current Reader position
- 277
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
Source 2
Raja Yoga or Mental Development
the Will is the direct instrument of the EgoOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Raja Yoga or Mental Development; printed page 272
Short quotation transcribed from the supplied scan; source passage read in context.
- Edition
- IMJ-0204-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0204-E001-P0280
- Original scan leaf
- 281
- Recorded leaf number
- 281
- Current Reader position
- 278
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
Continue exploring
Ego and Will in Raja Yoga
The Ego is presented as the directing identity and the Will as its instrument for governing mental states.
Shared source pageMental Habits
The character-building lesson frames recurring mental tendencies as habits subject to the Ego's direction.
Same subject and traditionSub-conscious Mentation
The handbook places much mental activity outside the field of present awareness.
Same subject and traditionUnfoldment of Consciousness
Ramacharaka describes changing awareness as an unfolding from within a larger mind.