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Darkness before dawn
By: Ranjana Chaube
The Brahmakumaris practise Raja Yoga, particularly the trataka form of meditation, in order to achieve union with God. It involves keeping your eyes open and fixing your gaze on a tiny red spot with total attention. Raja Yoga gives knowledge of self and enables one to attain peace, purity and harmony. Dawn is preceded by the darkest hour of the night. The Brahmakumaris consider the present time as the most critical period.
This will be followed by a new age: the dawn in the great cycle of time. The agent of transition may be the person possessing knowledge of the true self. One who reaches the highest stage of this knowledge becomes Brahma. The supreme divine being is Shiva, who is an embodiment of knowledge, peace purity and harmony.
Raja Yoga helps us locate ourselves in our souls (atma). Raja means ‘the glorious supreme’ and yoga means to connect or to establish a link with God.
Raja Yoga helps us locate ourselves in our souls (atma). Raja means ‘the glorious supreme’ and yoga means to connect or to establish a link with God.
It teaches us to pull ourselves back from being self-conscious to concentrate on the paramatma that is the purest entity. Mythology traditions and some ancient texts have declared Shiva (the deity) as the Lord of the Yogis and yoga was revealed to him. Yoga, however, is misunderstood today and is largely associated with physical bends and postures called asanas.
To the yogis, God is not an all-pervasive omnipotent entity; God is a tiny star-like soul. There are two fields of existence: the physical and the metaphysical.
Both fields act, react and interact to produce the desirable universal drama of which we are all a part, including God.
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