“Raja Yoga”

This book contains instructions from the outstanding Indian thinker, public and religious figure Swami Vivekanada (1863-1902). His American student Sarah Bull collected and preserved these materials, first publishing them for personal use in 1913. The subject of this book is Raja Yoga, according to the teachings of which the outer world is only a crude form of the inner. Thus, the external world is the effect, and the internal world is the cause. He who has learned to cope with internal forces will have all of nature at his disposal. The science of Raja Yoga provides humanity with the means to observe mental states, and the instrument for this is the mind itself.

“The life of the soul. Astral experiences”

Humanity is hypnotized by the thought of death. Even for many believers, death is sometimes scary. For those who have gained the consciousness that death is only an illusion, these fears disappear. And they, naturally, grieve, but they know that their beloved being has passed into another phase of life, and nothing is lost, nothing has perished. In essence, nothing dies, but everything is subject to change in images and actions. As it is said in the great Bhagavad Gita: “the beginning and the end are just a dream.”

“Bhakti Yoga”

This publication talks about Bhakti Yoga – a practice dedicated to the search for God. Teachers of knowledge and love recognize the undoubted power of Bhakti. To get closer to God, a person needs Knowledge (Jnana), Love (Bhakti) and Yoga, which maintains their balance. The personality in which they are harmoniously fused represents the noblest type; but it is not given to each of us in this life to possess them all, and those who must confine themselves to Bhakti alone should remember that although forms and rituals are certainly necessary for the perfection of the soul, they have only the meaning that they support in us the mood in which we feel the most intense love for God.

“My teacher”

The “My Teacher” lectures are dedicated to Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, his spiritual teacher. People gathered around him in thousands to listen to his teaching. Ramakrishna’s mission was to establish and preach the fundamental unity of religions. The Teacher found common features in all sects and believed that they do not contradict each other, but are only different phases of the One Eternal Religion. Ramakrishna urged not to set boundaries and to treat all faiths with respect. Swami Vivekananda talks about the life of his teacher, remembering him with boundless respect.

“Integral yoga and its goals”

This publication is dedicated to integral yoga, which emphasizes the importance of the individuality of each human consciousness and does not limit practitioners to a set of rules for the implementation of yogic experience. According to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, yogic aspiration through activity, meditation, love, devotion and openness to divine consciousness is the driving force for the transformation of consciousness and the transformation of human nature.