Rāja yoga
Highest state of yoga and synonymous term for Patanjali's system of yoga / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about Raja Yoga, the path of meditation according to the Four Yogas (Hinduism). For the scriptures from which Raja Yoga was derived, 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 also became a modern name for the practice of yoga[1][2] in the 19th-century when Swami Vivekananda gave his interpretation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in his book Raja Yoga.[3] Since then, Rāja yoga has variously been called aṣṭāṅga yoga, royal yoga, royal union, sahaja marg, and classical yoga.[4]