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on Swami Vivekananda’s Philosophy of Yoga and Its Prevalence in Crowley’s Thelema

By Lani Milbus — 2020

Swami Vivekananda, a Vedantic monk who lived at the turn of the 19th Century and is known as the modern father of Raja Yoga, described the path to enlightenment with an analogy of the flight of a bird. He said, “gnana yoga is one wing of the bird and bhakti is the other. Raja yoga is the tail that keeps the balance.”

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