Raja yoga is basic practices for the purification of body, mind and spirit. It is the cultivation of purity, light and wisdom. While Yama reduces the desire and agitation and tama’s reduces the darkness and negativity. The practice of asana and pranayama also plays an important role in the eight step system of raja yoga. Raja yoga unravels layers of dysfunctional emotional training, by transforming physical, emotional and conceptual habits. Yoga is the suppression of the modifications of the mind. Raja yoga is used to remove the kleshas. Kleshas is the key to liberating ourselves from the human condition of mental suffering. They are five kleshas:
• Avidya is the primordial ignorance that takes the “non-external, painful, impure and non self as the eternal, pure, happy self or Atma.
• Asmita is the egoism or the false “I” created by pure consciousness which identifies with the mind and the body and then divides the world into objects to be consumed or possessed, objects to be avoided and objects of no interest.
• Abhinivesha is the instinctual fear of death that haunts all people, even the learned.
• Raga is the power of the mind to dwell on the objects that the false ego associates with pleasure.
• Dwesha is the opposite power of the mind to generate emotions of hatred and disgust for objects that the false ego associates with pain.
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