Raja Yoga Or The Practical Metaphysics Of The Vedanta

About the book:-The author reveals that this little and valuable book is an attempt to present in one connected form what little he had an occasion to collect in the form of stray notes on the philosophy and practice of the Vedanta. The first section of the Introduction is the reprint of the paper he reads in the middle of 1884, and the second section which forms as it were a supplement to the first, is reprinted from an introduction. He was asked to prepare early in the beginning of this year for an edition of the Bhagvad Gita by his friend Mr. Tookaram Tatya of Bombay. He is more encouraged to reprint these contributions, 'with the pretty frequent requests made to him, from different parts of the country, by persons interested in the advancement of transcendental studies, for allowing them to reprint and circulate the paper which forms the first section of the present Introduction. An attempt is here made to demonstrate the possibility of a universal science of ontology from the standpoint of modern physical science, and to present subsequently a brief sketch of all that Aryan philosophy has to say on the subject. The two translations that follow complete the series by demonstrating some of the leading and important positions of the Vedanta and finally by prescribing certain practical rules for the guidance and exhalation of the beginner.With the intrusion of this little bit of personal history to account for the somewhat irregular form in which these notes appear, he lays them before the indulgent reader with a hope that they will prove useful to them in his study of the deep and ennobling philosophy of the Vedanta.