Raja-Yoga

APPENDIX.
REFERENCES TO YOGA.
Svetasvatara
Upanishad.
Chapter
II.
2-6-14. Where the fire is churned, where the air is
controlled, where the flow of Soma becomes plentiful
there a (perfect) mind is created
Placing
the body in which the chest, the throat, and the head
are held erect, in a straight posture, making the organs
enter the mind, the sage crosses all the fearful cur
rents by means of the raft of Brahman.
The man of well regulated endeavours controls the
Prdna, and when it has become quieted breathes out
through the nostrils. The persevering sage holds his
mind as a charioteer holds the restive horses.
In lonely places, as mountain caves, etc., where the
floor is
even, free of pebbles or sand, where there are
no disturbing noises from men or waterfalls, in places
helpful to the mind and pleasing to the eyes, Yoga is
to be practised (mind
is to be joined).
Like snowfall, smoke, sun, wind, fire, firefly, light
ning, crystal, moon, these forms, coming before,
gradually manifest the Brahman in Yoga.
When the perceptions of Yoga, arising from earth,
water, light, fire, ether, have taken place, then Yoga
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