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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 ...
Rajas. Rajas ( Sanskrit: रजस्) is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. [1] [2] The other two qualities are sattva (goodness, balance) and tamas (lethargy, violence, disorder). Rajas is innate tendency or quality that ...
Sattva. Sattva ( Sanskrit: सत्त्व, meaning goodness) is one of the three guṇas or "modes of existence" (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept understood by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. [1] [2] The other two qualities are rajas (passion and activity) and tamas (destruction, chaos).
Raja (festival) Girls swinging on Raja swing. Raja Parba ( Odia: ରଜ ପର୍ବ, pronounced [ɾɔdʒɔ pɔɾbɔ] ), also known as Mithuna Sankranti, is a three-day-long festival of womanhood celebrated in Odisha, India. The second day of the festival signifies beginning of the solar month of Mithuna, from which the season of rains starts.
Jnana yoga ( IAST: Jñāna yoga ), also known as the jnana marga ( jñāna mārga ), is one of the three classical paths ( margas) for moksha (liberation) [1] [2] in Hinduism, which emphasizes the "path of knowledge", [3] also known as the "path of self-realization". [4] The other two are karma yoga (path of action, karma-mārga) and bhakti ...
Raja yogas are Shubha ('auspicious') yogas in jyotish philosophy and tradition. They are believed to give success and a grand rise in career or business, and a greater degree of financial prosperity particularly during the dasha of the planets that give rise to Raja yogas. However, these results get adversely modified by the presence of other ...
Chola bronze, Tamil Nadu, 10th or 11th century. The word Nataraja is a Sanskrit term, from नट Nata meaning "act, drama, dance" and राज Raja meaning "king, lord"; it can be roughly translated as Lord of the dance or King of the dance. [22] [23] According to Ananda Coomaraswamy, the name is related to Shiva's fame as the "Lord of ...
Revering the king as god incarnated on earth is the concept of devaraja. Devaraja ( Sanskrit: देवराज, romanized : Devarāja) was a religious order of the "god-king," or deified monarch in medieval Southeast Asia. [1] The devarāja order grew out of both Hinduism and separate local traditions depending on the area. [2]