Raja Yoga Elevation Of The Mind From Consciousness To Hyperconsciousness: Theory And Practice. Indian And Greek Thought

By Nikolaos Margioris

This book was first published in 1983. It is the highest level of my teachings in Esoteric Initiation. In essence, the subject being taught, is the ascendance of consciousness to places and worlds of another, unknown frequency.
A practical method of ascending towards the transcendental and hyper-conscious state of the human mind. Any person can enter this grand and sacred path of the Divine Encounter.
Written with enthusiasm and with the hope that it will assist anyone in using this simple method for the activation of the up until now immobilized other half of the human mind.
Counted in second minutes, the times of the different phases of concentration, meditation and ecstasy-union-Samadhi, provide the student with the ability and certainty of walking on the spiritual and mental paths of their own self with great ease and certain results.
Raja Yoga or the Royal Way is the organized union of the human mind with the area of the transcendental frequency-state.
Socrates, or rather the Platonic Socrates, calls it stochasmos (intense focusing or concentration or meditation). This is the most suitable word to use. Only through stochasmos can the mind locate its third side, the hyper-conscious side. Then, the conscious and the subconscious sides completely recede to the back of the mind and leave the hyper-conscious in full control, which leads humans to the proper frequencies so that they become capable of sensing higher stimuli.
At the same time, it is harmony and perfection itself. The entrance of anyone in the vibrations of these frequencies will culminate in their being eternal from that moment on. They will feel perfection and will vibrate with harmony itself.
There is no need for any special equipment. Determination and genuine enthusiasm are the only things needed. Take this system, this holy gift, in your hands without fear and head towards the dawn, illuminated by the light of knowledge.
This book is considered a unique work. The entirety of the psychophysiology of elevation of the Mind from consciousness to hyperconsciousness, in places and worlds of another unknown frequency, are given in a practical and fully detailed way through meditation.
It is a complete, practical scientific method of ascending to the transcendental and hyperconscious state of the human Mind, which creates the hope for every person to become worthy to ascend to this Holy Path of the Divine Meeting. It constitutes the natural continuity and extension of the homonymous study of the great spiritual Master Vivekananda, which spread the spiritual aspect of yoga in the West.
With the publication of this book, an avenue of access is being opened to the authentic and profound analysis, both theoretical and practical, on Raja Yoga internationally, which is believed to be a springboard and undisturbed marker for every honest seeker of the spiritual path and of the practical means of support, necessary for this purpose.

CONTENTS

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE BOOK
REASONS FOR PUBLISHING THE BOOK RAJA YOGA
A FEW INTRODUCTORY WORDS ABOUT MASTER N. MARGIORIS
ABOUT MY MASTER NIKOLAOS A. MARGIORIS
INFORMATION–DISCLAIMER
THE TWO PARTS OF THE BOOK
PREPARATION
REQUEST
WHERE THE PRESENT BOOK WAS WRITTEN
THE PHILOSOPHY OF YOGA AND ITS POSITION IN MY ESOTERIC KEY
NOTE
DEDICATION
PREFACE

PART ONE - THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF RAJA YOGA
INTRODUCTION
ANCIENT GREEK ALLUSIONS TO STOCHASMOS (INTENSE FOCUSING – CONCENTRATION – MEDITATION)
ΤΗΕ MEANING OF THE WORD YOGA AND OF THE PHRASE RAJA YOGA
THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF THE MOST ANCIENT INITIATION WAS THE ACTUALIZATION OF HYPERCONSCIOUSNESS – THE PHILOSOPHY OF YOGA
ASHTAVAKRA, THE SAGE WITH THE EIGHT BENDS
ANALYSIS OF THE STEPS OF RAJA YOGA
1) YAMA: (RESTRAINT – TRUTH)
2) NIYAMA: (OBEDIENCE – EXECUTION)
3) ASANA (POSE – MOVEMENT – PHASE – ACTION)
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Nikolaos Margioris
• Release date: Sep 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463785126

Nikolaos Margioris

Nikolaos Margioris was a contemporary experiential neo-pythagorean and neo-platonic metaphysical Master, founder of the Omakoios of Athens, Lamia and Trikala, and a Christocentric and Christocratic Mystic. Within 23 years (1970-1993), he wrote 189 philosophical, spiritual texts and practical guides and taught the Esoteric Truth in our country for 35 years. In addition to his profound and exceptional written work, he left behind a vast and timeless-revelatory wealth of oral spiritual testimonies on the entire range of Occultism and Mysticism-Theosis for study and application. He was born on the island of Samos on December 15, 1913 and spent some of his childhood there, in Alexandria of Egypt, and in India, but left his last breath in Athens on May 6, 1993. The teaching of N. Margioris consists of the harmonious coexistence of the ancient Greek, Egyptian and Indian mysteries, along with the inner Christian tradition. Above all, however, it is filtered, revived and crowned by his profoundly esoteric and mystical realization, which contributes to the "treasury" of the spirit and to his personal Revelation, his own unprecedented experiential testimony of the Theogony, Cosmogony, Ontogony and Eschatology of Creation. In 1976, he established for the first time in Athens the Omakoio of Athens in honor of Pythagoras and thus contributed to the revival of Pythagorean ideas. In the autumn of 1990, he inaugurated the Omakoio of Lamia of his pupils Dimitris and Koula Tsaparas and in January of 1992, the Omakoio of Trikala of his pupil Ilias Katsiambas. After his transmigration, his assistant Smaro Kosmaoglou took over the direction of the Omakoio of Athens. The instructors mentioned above -on their own or through their students- or even former members of Master Margioris founded other Omakoios in several parts of Greece that continue the work and philosophical legacy of Nikolaos A. Margioris. His brilliant and multidimensional spiritual work is invaluable and an Esoteric GEM-CHAPTER of great value worldwide, coming from one of the Great spiritual children of modern Greece, who will undoubtedly remain memorable and be beneficial to the history of mankind for all eternity. Information: www.omakoio.gr & email: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

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AUTHOR: NIKOLAOS A. MARGIORIS

ESOTERICISM FOR ALL

TITLE: RAJA YOGA

Elevation of the Mind From Consciousness to Hyperconsciousness

Theory and Practice. Indian and Greek Thought

HE HIGHEST LEVEL OF THE MOST ANCIENT INITIATION

WAS THE ACTUALIZATION OF HYPERCONSCIOUSNESS

Translation: Eleni Kalkani

Translation editor: Anatoli Fitopoulou

Cover: Alexandros Tsakiris

Production supervisor: Platon Malliagkas – mediterrabooks[dot]com

Author Nikolaos A. Margioris (Copyrights belong to his heirs)

First English Edition, Athens 2019

First Greek Edition, 1983

Second Greek Edition: Athens 2019, ISBN: 978-960-7484-25-3

Editing Second Greek Edition: Smaro Kosmaoglou, Korina Plataki-Mpagiartaki.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, ATHENS 2019:

Editing First English Edition: Andreas Margioris, Ilias Katsiampas, Niki Foufa, Efi Alexopoulou

©2019, Nikolaos A. Margioris (Copyrights belong to his heirs)

ISBN: 9780463785126

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NIKOLAOS A. MARGIORIS

ESOTERICISM FOR ALL

RAJA YOGA

NOETIC ELEVATION

(Elevation of the Mind From Consciousness

to Hyperconsciousness)

THEORY AND PRACTICE

INDIAN AND GREEK THOUGHT

THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF THE MOST ANCIENT INITIATION

WAS THE ACTUALIZATION OF HYPERCONSCIOUSNESS

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HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE BOOK

The book Raja Yoga by Nikolaos Margioris, author and contemporary metaphysics Master and Mystic, was translated from Greek into English in 2004 by Eleni Kalkani, at the initiative of Ilias Katsiampas, director of the Omakoio of Trikala and Thessaloniki and a student of N. Margioris, at his own expense and with the financial contribution of his fellow students Nikos Blanas, Lamprini Polyzois, Niki Foufa, Dimitris Tsaparas, Kostas Mantzikos, Alekos Papavasileiou and Elli Dermosonoglou.

Our aim was to have the book publication undertaken by a foreign publishing house at the instigation of N. Margioris’ natural heirs, to whom the book rights were transferred through on many online bookstores.

After a time of futile efforts, the students of N. Margioris requested and received permission from the heirs to take on this project at their own expense and at their own initiative and to make the relevant agreements required for the purpose.

Permission was granted and in mid-2018, the thorough and careful revision of the translated version of the book was undertaken by Anatoli Fitopoulou and the entire publication procedure was set in motion by Mediterrabooks of Platon Malliagka. Our goal was the flawless publication of the book in the English language in print and digital form through the international digital platforms of many online bookstores and perhaps other domains.

This whole endeavour was made under the umbrella of the YOGA ACADEMY OF NIKOLAOS MARGIORIS – OMAKOIO, a non-profit organization established in Trikala (ancient Trikke) in 2012 to honor, preserve, bring to the fore and promote the work of Master Margioris, as stipulated in its charter.

An appeal for support in this effort was made to all members and students of the Academy, who swiftly responded with viable results. Despite the economic recession, many members graciously offered their donations, considering it a special honor to contribute to this endeavour. This response greatly moved us and so we found ourselves in the pleasant position of proceeding with the publication of the book Raja Yoga, to be followed soon after with the publication of some of the other 180 works of N. Margioris. The next in line is Life After Death, which was translated into English at Ilias Katsiampas’ own expense in the past.

In honor of the members of our Academy who contributed to our goal, we cite their names: Ilias Katsiampas and Niki Foufa, who initiated and contributed financially and decisively throughout the endeavour, Vana Katsiampa, Christos Manasidis, Athina Kyrtsou, Giannis Polyzois and Efi Margoni, Koula Tsapara, Anna Giavasi, Costas Mantzikos, Despina Dendrinou, George Skoklidis, Eleni Papachristou, Brenda Kathesides, Thalia Zemou, Kornilia Palosi-Stergios Kitsos and Maria Vratsista et al.

We would like to mention that there are already four books that have been published in English, in print and digital form, available on the international online bookstores at the initiative of N. Margioris’ student, Ilias Katsiampas who wished to pave the way for the multifaceted experiential works of Master N. Margioris. Within them are preserved a plethora of the Master’s views, positions, profound analyses and testimonies.

We should thank and congratulate the natural heirs of the Master, his children Andreas and Kallia, who supply us with his written work and are making every effort, in cooperation with the Omakoios, to re-publish and promote all books of the 180 works of the Master that are currently out of print as well as to take advantage of this notable opportunity to make his multifaceted work well-known internationally through the publication of the book Raja Yoga in the English language.

Special thanks are extended to the son of Master N. Margioris, Andreas, for his contribution to the editing of this work.

Congratulations are in order as well to all the other brothers and sisters and fellow travellers who have contributed in their own special way to the work of the Master, as well as to all Schools–Omakoios that are a direct result of N. Margioris. We convey our wishes for the successful outcome of our common goal.

On behalf of the Yoga Academy–Omakoio N. Margioris

The President

Ilias L. Katsiampas

REASONS FOR PUBLISHING THE BOOK RAJA YOGA

The reasons that prompted us to select Raja Yoga as the first book for translation and publication in the English language are many and significant.

The Esoteric Philosophy of the Mystics (Blavatsky, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda, Djwal Khul through the mouth of Alice Bailey, N. Margioris et al.) refers to the decisive role that the practical noetic art of Raja Yoga plays in the 5th Root Race of humanity which we have arrived at with high hopes of halting the reigning extroversion and elevating introspection (the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes) and spirituality in the world.

Maha Yoga (the Great Union) or Raja (Royal) or Rayia or Ashtanga (eight-limbed, eightfold) or the codified Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is renowned for its highly rational detail of the elevation scale of meditation and the entire practical system of the nine steps–levels it consists of –eight visible plus one ‘hidden’.

It appeals to and fully identifies with the western Mind of the contemporary human who is completely rational, who wants to foreknow and perceive as fully as possible the psychophysiological elevation of meditation and the results it will bring about –theoretically, philosophically as well as practically– to the body and the mind of all practitioners.

Only Raja Yoga can offer this, and quite open-handedly, one can say, depending always on the abilities of the yoga instructors, on whether they are a little, somewhat or highly experienced in the practices and whether they have crossed paths with real experiential Spiritual Masters and have fully assimilated all the known and, more important, the unknown aspects of yoga.

The most significant book written and in circulation for many years now on the basics and fundamentals of yoga is Raja Yoga by Vivekananda (with an interpretation of Patanjali’s sutras), and of secondary importance, The Light of the Soul by Alice Baily, as well as various other books with briefer introductory analyses.

We believe that after Vivekananda’s guide, N. Margioris’ book titled Raja Yoga, elevation of the Mind from consciousness to hyperconsciousness is very informative with uniquely profound theoretical and practical analyses of the entire eightfold path of Raja. It is an imperative tool for our times, which so desire and seek it.

A cornerstone in Margioris’ work for the smooth and dynamic integration into Raja Yoga for all those who are interested is Kriya Yoga, a Practical Method of Somatopsychic Training–Therapy–Alignment, the future breeding ground for all potential Raja Yogis.

For this purpose, the Master authored a book that is unique in the world, titled Kriya Yoga, A Practical Method of Psychosomatic Therapy as well as the book The Secret of Hatha Yoga so as to redirect, re-orientate the faltering Hatha Yoga of the west that seems to have lost its deeper orientation and objective, its very roots.

N. Margioris’ book Raja Yoga can play a very significant, profound and preparatory role in grasping the entire endeavor that always requires a Master and guidance (from the Master’s mouth to the student’s ear). For the first time, Master Margioris PUBLICALLY reveals all there is to know about the esoteric science of Raja Yoga in all its depth and in great detail.

Lastly, the oral didactic testimonies and special tutorials of N. Margioris, taught by teachers he himself appointed, are extremely profound in analysis and provide additional specialized experiential details, interpretations and guidance throughout the entire elevation process of the eightfold path of Raja Yoga.

Ilias L. Katsiampas

A FEW INTRODUCTORY WORDS ABOUT MASTER N. MARGIORIS

Master N. Margioris was born on the island of Samos in 1913 and grew up there until he moved to Alexandria, Egypt, where, at the age of thirteen, he experienced his first Samadhi–Divine Union. He studied Economic Sciences and then spent several years in India studying archaeology and yoga sciences at the side of great Masters. Upon returning to Alexandria, he, along with his associates, founded the first school of Raja Yoga. When he returned to Greece in 1958, he immediately became active in several esoteric domains, teaching all the esoteric sciences, as he had, for that matter, in Egypt.

In 1972, he established the Association of Saint Patapios, where he tirelessly lectured until his natural departure from this world in 1993. In 1976, he created his neo-Pythagorean school, the Omakoio of Athens, in which he provided all the knowledge that could be beneficial, his contribution culminating in the creation of executives and teachers.

In the Omakoio of Athens, one could find the essence of Yoga and its major philosophical and practical systems, ancient Hellenic Initiation, Egyptian Initiation and esoteric Christian Initiation. All these in a harmonious co-existence of possibilities and opportunities, depending on the distinct psychosynthesis and the needs of each novice seeker.

Between 1970 and 1993, in only twenty-three years, he authored and published over 180 works, while at the same time he never stopped teaching, practising his healing work, training his pupils and executives, organising educational excursions, regularly teaching courses and seminars on Kriya, Raja, Kundalini, Karma, Gnani, Esoteric Philosophy, Initiation, Therapeutics, Hypnotism–Orthopsychy, Meditation, Scientific Spirituality, and many other topics. He also received people in his office on a daily basis, helping them deal with their particular problems and needs, in this way contributing to their resolution and, in general, always being available to offer whatever assistance each individual needed, whether exoteric, esoteric and/or spiritual.

In his lifetime, he inaugurated two new Schools–Omakoios, the Omakoio of Lamia of his pupil Dimitris Tsaparas in 1990 and the Omakoio of Trikala of his pupil Ilias Katsiampas in 1992. After his transmigration in 1993, his assistant Smaro Kosmaoglou took over the direction of the Omakoio of Athens.

Soon after, many new Schools–Omakoios, as well as groups, –initially from his pupils and later on, from the pupils of his pupils– were established. By way of example, we cite the Pythagorean Omakoio in Athens of Dimitris Tsaparas, the Omakoio of Thessaloniki in Salonika of Ilias Katsiampas and Vana Katsiampa, the Omakoio of Corinth–Loutraki of Niki Foufa, the Omakoio of Komotini of Eleni Tsatsou, the Omakoio of Palaio Faliro of Eleni Kossyfidou, the Omakoio of Glyfada of Eleni Mavraki, The Omakoio of Corfu of Soula Pouliasi and Giannis Sgouros, the Omakoio of Peiraeus of Kostas Dimelis, and other groups under the guidance of the former pupils Eleni Antoniadi, Anna Yiavasi, Sophia Papadimitriou, Koula Tsapara et al. Equally important are the executives and assistants of all the Omakoios, whose presence and contribution to the individual projects of each academy is invaluable.

You can find detailed biographical facts about N. Margioris, about his writings and the sphere of activities of his Schools–Omakoios in the English language at our site: omakoio[dot]gr

...With the publication of this book, we hope to open an avenue of accessibility to the authentic and profound analysis of Raja Yoga, which we believe will constitute a Springboard and a sturdy Signpost for all sincere seekers on the spiritual path looking for the theoretical and practical support required for this purpose.

With these thoughts and hopes, it is with great pleasure that we offer this invaluable document for study. We hope you enjoy it and acquire knowledge from the analyses-interpretations and special explanations it contains. In all cases, of course, the Master–pupil relationship is what will ultimately bring about Sound Knowledge and Sound Practices, which can gradually guide the pupil towards experiential knowledge and true ultimate actualization.

We suggest that this and every other similar metaphysical work be studied seven times in combination with regular practical training at the feet of an authorized Raja Yoga instructor.

Ilias L. Katsiampas

Director of the Omakoios

of Trikala and Thessaloniki

ABOUT MY MASTER NIKOLAOS A. MARGIORIS

On the 25th of September, 1981, the Mystic Nikolaos A. Margioris founded the School of Raja Yoga in Athens.

To quote his words: "With justifiable joy, I announce to you the founding of the first School of Raja Yoga in our beloved Athens. This pleasant event took place at eight o’clock this morning at the OMAKOIO OF ATHENS in the presence of three of my old friends–pupils from Egypt.

I mention this because in 1946, in Alexandria of Egypt it was with these very men, along with the late a) Krino Andre Salvatore de Kastro, archaeologist, composer and my teacher, b) the professor of eastern languages ALEXANDER SHOUER founder of the ENGLISH ACADEMY, that I founded The Centre for Studies in Indian Philosophical Systems. In accordance to custom and ancient traditions, after I recounted the reasons for the creation of RAJA YOGA by its founding philosopher PRANTAJALI , I chanted OM RAJA YOGA with them three times and then we chanted the corresponding "OM DARSHANA RAJA YOGA" chant another three times. ...The absolute is conceived and is attained with the system of the Royal Yoga. In that spiritual centre, I taught, among other things, my beloved RAJA YOGA, that I still teach to this day.

...Join me on this great MYSTERY OF ELEVATION. My new School of Raja Yoga will introduce you to the elevated and real mysteries of our ancestors the Dravidians, who were the ancestors of the Indians as well..."

In the OMAKOIO OF ATHENS, an EXEMPLARY SCHOOL, Master N. Margioris devoted himself to his writings, continuously practiced healing and taught Gnani Yoga, Karma Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Esoteric Sciences such as Therapeutics, Initiation, Philosophy, Astrology–Astrosophy, Hypnotism–Orthopsychy, Desymbolism, Kriya Yoga, and the apogee of knowledge and therapeutics, RAJA YOGA.

The publication of his book RAJA YOGA (his 17th book) arrived in 1983.

The Mystic N. MARGIORIS provides his own authentic, wholly experiential spiritual seal when explaining in a clear, simple and PURELY SPIRITUAL manner, this calibrated system of Royal RAJA YOGA, which is appropriate for the evolution of our root race. On page 216 of the book, he says, ...The exercises of Raja Yoga subdue the mind of the trainee to the psychospiritual being of a person, to the immortal EGO, which represents Perfection, Goodness, Beauty, Harmony, True Love, the DIVINE itself.

In this book, we will also study the very particular antediluvian Dravidian system of KUNDALINI YOGA. KUNDALINI is crystallised energy stored in the final segment of the spinal column, the coccyx, its etheric component. The purpose of this yoga is to activate the kundalini to rise to the epiphysis (pineal gland) at the top of the head. On page 216, he says, A word of warning, though. Kundalini must be used to actualize the pure, the perfect, the just, the ordained by the DIVINE.

These ancient pathways of evolution, one via elevation of the mind from the conscious to the hyperconscious and the other via elevation through kundalini, can be attained only with the highest knowledge of the Mystics who have applied and recorded the course that leads to REAL SPIRITUALIZATION, the release from matter.

The vivid speech of N. Margioris is an archetype. As a brilliant spiritual guide, he DESYMBOLIZES, REVEALS the elevation of matter toward spiritual levels.

In his work, he aligns and emphasizes the profoundly ideal reasoning of the Dravidians, of the Philosophy of Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, Heraclitus, of the Great neo-Platonic and Alexandrian visionaries Masters Ammonius Saccas, Plotinus, Hypatia, representatives of neo-Platonism, as well as of the greatest of their fellow Indian philosophers, Mysticists and Mystics of the Christian Mystic Viewpoint, Gregory Palamas...and others.

We believe that this book will constitute a pure diamond of profound, real, invaluable knowledge, a Gospel that will be added to the humanitarian intellectual rosary of the Great Masters, the Ecumenical Saints.

We should add that all his oral tutorials on Raja Yoga and Kundalini, which he studied and analyzed extensively, have been preserved and are taught at the Omakoios. We have also preserved some of his more notable extensive oral analyses on some especially refined spiritual matters on the paths that lead to DIVINE HEIGHTS, which he provided as divine gifts.

We hope that the publication of his other works will soon follow, for they will provide our fellow human beings with the opportunity to become acquainted with the Spiritually comprehensive View of one of our Greatest Esoteric Metaphysical Philosophers, but especially his Christocentric and Christocratic Mystic views on the matter of existence, cosmology, Being.

I would like to thank the students of the Omakoio of Loutraki who contributed throughout the endeavour to publish this book in English: Efi Alexopoulou who helped with editing, Georgia Galanopoulou, Nikos Kletas, and Andromaxi Vouldi.

Niki D. Foufa, director of the Omakoio

of Corinth–Loutraki (in operation since 1994),

member of the Academy of Yoga N. Margioris–Omakoio

Email: omakoio.korinthos@gmail[dot]com

INFORMATION–DISCLAIMER

The present book first circulated in the Greek language in a 203-page volume in 1983 by the contemporary Greek Mystic Nikolaos A. Margioris.

Today, after 35 whole years, we are happy to say that we are in a position to present it internationally in the English language, offering all people–seekers–pupils the opportunity to attain profoundly ESSENTIAL knowledge about the elevation scale of Raja and Kundalini yoga.

What’s more, among other things, the book emphasizes the importance of the significant and catalytic relationship between Master and pupil throughout the entire course of training, evolution and spiritual elevation.

The author firmly believed that parallel to whatever specialized instruction and analysis he provided with the present book, he also helped people comprehend and perceive the great value esoteric cultivation has on the individual and society and guides them to commune with and reconsider the moral values and testimonies of the Great Spirits of Humanity from all over the world, so that each of us more responsibly assumes our personal obligations as individual, social and spiritual beings in the face of our own self and all living and non-living Creation–Divinity.

All teaching, especially if it is Metaphysical–Spiritual, requires a close relationship and frequent contact between Master and pupil on a daily basis, so that the initiation is reliable, continuously evolving, of high quality, substantial, vibrant and more effective.

All other relationships, such as the present one through the book, no matter how thorough and profound, are solely of a purely informative nature about the potential for growth and moral/spiritual evolution–perfection of each individual. It is attained by a person who will truly desire it and voluntarily follow it within the context of a close training course and with disciplined application of its practices in their daily life.

The author has made every effort to render the topics discussed as comprehensible as possible for the reader and is not responsible for any errors, inaccuracies, omissions and contradictions that may have slipped into the book or may be perceived as such due to a limited or complete absence of esoteric education on the reader’s behalf.

He also takes no responsibility for whatever misunderstandings, misinterpretations, individual experimentations and side effects, since the book does not constitute a personal life coach but a descriptive means of information and knowledge on behalf of the author. Every individual is free to comment on and question the topics raised, to judge them, accept them, or reject them, and if they ever so decide, then and only then should they apply the practical segment, always by the side of an experienced and appointed Raja Yoga instructor.

We wholeheartedly wish you an interesting, pleasant and useful reading journey into the Esoteric Experiential Knowledge of the Mystics found in this book.

Once again, the Spiritual Light has come to flow and spread from Mother Hellas to the whole wide World.

Greece, 27-06-2018

Ι.L.K.

THE TWO PARTS OF THE BOOK

In order to make it easier to understand the approach–transition of the Mind to the Hypermind, I separated the book into TWO MAIN PARTS. In the first Part, I analyze the theory and the philosophy of Yoga as painstakingly as I can. In many parts, I indirectly compare Indian Thought and Philosophy with Greek Thought and Philosophy. Anybody with some knowledge of Yoga in general will discover instances where the Greeks used the word Stochasmos (Intense focusing–Concentration–Meditation), as did the Platonic Socrates. The frequent repetition of numerous basic points concerning the entire system of transition to the Hypermind of Raja Yoga is necessary and of vital importance if the reader is to realize the system.

In the SECOND PART, I present the practical application of all the points that lead to the consummation of Raja Yoga. The transcendental elevation by means of the practical explanation and guidance is more difficult than the theoretical analysis. But I am determined to offer all willing readers my practical advice so that they acquire the meaning needed for the actualization of Hyperconsciousness, which will surprise the devotee during elevations of the Mind that go beyond the logical, known human successes.

PREPARATION

All those who