The Six Esoteric Yogic Gateways #24

The great Swami Vivekananda, who brought authentic dharma to the west in the form of Vedanta and Yoga in 1893, has raised the status of Karma Yoga to an elevated position. No longer is it to be considered somehow inferior or subservient to the other three main Yogas of Vedanta. With the world in the predicament that it is today, in possession of vast wealth and power but generally bereft of spirituality and compassion, the yoga of selfless works both fills the crying need for service of suffering humanity and fits the criterion for it as well. This superlative swami has stated, in heartfelt fashion, that it is as important to dry the tears of the widow and place a piece of bread into a hungry mouth as it is to seek and attain the highest illumination. Moksha is our true nature; we already have it. It is suffering humanity that needs our attention.....

In the incomparable world of Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality, there can be no finer example of the sublime and the subliminal than a meeting of the great minds of two fully realized luminaries. In this teaching chart, a grandsire of Yoga meets with a perfected exemplar of Advaita Vedanta to put forth the beloved darshana of Yoga as it has rarely been seen before. Masterfully inserted into the traditional Eight Limbs of Yoga are six other complementary concomitants that bring Patanjali’s system from the second century, forward to a more contemporary age. For those who have long cherished the integration of Yoga and Vedanta as a superlative pathway in spiritual life, a study of this unique blending of fine philosophies and facile minds will be welcome indeed.