A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Yogi Ramacharaka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440075751 ISBN 13: 9781440075759

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Unlock the Real Self and the power within you Discover a pathway to inner awareness through a practical series of lessons on Raja Yoga. This edition guides readers to awaken the Real Self, harness the Will, and cultivate a steady, practical approach to mental growth. It emphasizes inner mastery before seeking outer knowledge, inviting you to experience the mind’s unfolding from the inside out.

Two short paragraphs frame a practical path:
These lessons describe how to distinguish the Real Self from its habits and appearances, and they outline two stages of awakening consciousness. They also explore how the mind’s deeper layers—conscious and subconscious—shape what you can know and do. The text blends philosophy with exercises and affirmations to help you cultivate attention, perception, and the disciplined use of will.

What you’ll experience

• A clear concept of the Real Self and its relation to everyday life


• Guidance on awakening consciousness and expanding awareness


• Practical exercises, affirmations, and mental drills


• An invitation to examine how thought, attention, and will shape your life

Ideal for readers seeking a thoughtful, structured approach to self-study, mindfulness, and personal growth through Raja Yoga concepts. This edition is well-suited for anyone curious about inner development and practical mental training.

About this title

About the Author

Born in Maryland in 1862, he began working life at 15 in his parent’s grocery store. He married at age 27, and became a successful attorney in Pennsylvania. However, stress and over-strain brought him to a physical and mental breakdown that ended in a financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880’s he found the principles of New Thought, and in applying them he restored his health, mental vigor and material prosperity. He began writing articles on the truths he had discovered. His “A Mental Science Catechism,” appeared in Charles Fillmore's ‘Modern Thought’ in 1889. By the early 1890’s he moved to Chicago, then a major center for New Thought, and became an active promoter of the movement as an editor and author. He wrote his first book, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, in 1900, a series of lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, thought-force, concentration, will-power, and practical mental science. Soon after he met Sydney Flower, a well-known New Thought publisher, and in December 1901 he became editor of Flower's New Thought magazine (until 1905). He wrote dozens of articles in the magazine; and later on, he was a regular contributor to Elizabeth Towne’s Magazine, Nautilus. Throughout his subsequent career, Atkinson wrote and published over 100 different books, some under his own name and many under pseudonyms such as Yogi Ramacharaka, Theron Q. Dumont, Theodore Sheldon, Magus Incognito, Edward Walker, Three Initiates and Swami Bhakta Vishita. Among the first to develop the concept of Law of Attraction, Atkinson is considered, together with Orison Swett Marden and Wallace Wattles, the masters of self-development and positive thinking, and the real promoters of New Thought, a movement that came very much to life again with the Millennium He died November 22, 1932 in Los Angeles, California , after 50 years of successful career in law, business, writing, occultism, and a life surrounded by mysteries, including his own death.

From the Back Cover

Yogi Ramacharaka was the pseudonym of William Walker Atkinson a prolific writer, and his many books achieved wide circulation among New Thought devotees and occult practitioners. He published under several pen names, including Magus Incognito, Theodore Sheldon, Theron Q. Dumont, Swami Panchadasi, Yogi Ramacharaka, Swami Bhakta Vishita, and probably other names not identified at present. Atkinson has been identified as the author or co-author of 105 separate titles.

These works treat themes related to the mental world, occultism, divination, psychic reality, and mankind's nature. They constitute a basis for what Atkinson called "New Psychology" or "New Thought". Titles include Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World, and Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing: A Course of Lessons on the Psychic Phenomena of Distant Sensing, Clairvoyance, Psychometry, Crystal Gazing, etc.

Ramacharaka's Advanced Course in Yoga Philosophy and Oriental Occultism remains widely respected as an excellent primer for the Western layman, despite the fact that it was 100 years old in 2004 and is understandably dated in some respects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440075751
• ISBN 13: 9781440075759
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308