Lectures on Raja Yoga
By
Sri Swami Chidananda
Sri Swami Sivananda
Founder of
The Divine Life Society
SERVE, LOVE, GIVE,
PURIFY, MEDITATE,
REALIZE
So Says
Sri Swami Sivananda
Sri Swami Chidananda
A DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY PUBLICATION
First Edition:
1976
Second Edition:
1991
(3,000 Copies)
World Wide Web (WWW) Edition: 1999
WWW site: http://www.SivanandaDlshq.org/
This WWW reprint is for free distribution
© The Divine Life Trust Society
ISBN 81-7052-081-9
Published By
THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY
P.O. SHIVANANDANAGAR—249 192
Distt. Tehri-Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh,
Himalayas, India.
PREFACE
Peace be unto all beings!
Adorations unto the Almighty Lord! Homage unto the great Sage Patanjali, the ancient
expounder of the science of Raja Yoga! Salutations to Worshipful Master Gurudev Sivananda at
whose Feet this book is offered in reverence and devotion!
I am happy to give this brief Preface to this little book on the subject of Raja Yoga edited by
Sri Swami Vimalananda, who has been a devoted helper to me in innumerable ways over the past
more than two decades. The matter in this book comprises a series of class lectures given in Beirut
(Lebanon) at the Yoga Shanti Niketan where I had been invited by the Founder-Director, Mrs.
Louisa Raaff, known to her student circles as Mother Shanta and Mother Swami Lalitanandaji, who
generously helped towards this trip. I went to Beirut and stayed for six weeks in the spring of 1973
fulfilling a programme of a series of class lectures, Satsangas, meditation sessions and public
engagements. Two other friends who took great interest in my visit and were very helpful to me are
Sri Omar Mansaur and Jean Pierre Sara, both spiritual seekers taking keen interest in Yoga practice
and meditation. To these wonderful persons I owe a debt of gratitude and take this opportunity of
recording it here.
I must also mention the young student, Panos Tsakalian of the American University at
Beirut who arranged lectures at the University.
These lectures have been given in very simple language avoiding technical ter