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=Different Schools Of Yoga=
==What is Rajayoga?==
Rajayoga aims at the liberation and perfection not of the bodily, ...it fixes its eyes on the "citta", that stuff of mental consciousness in which all these activities arise, and it seeks, even as Hathayoga with its physical material, first to purify and to tranquillise.
The preliminary movement of Rajayoga is a careful self-discipline by which good habits of mind are substituted for the lawless movements that indulge the lower nervous being. By the practice of truth, by renunciation of all forms of egoistic seeking, by abstention from injury to others, by purity, by constant meditation and inclination to the divine Purusha who is the true lord of the mental kingdom, a pure, glad, clear state of mind and heart is established. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-systems-of-yoga#p11</ref>
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…Rajayoga does not forget that the disabilities of the ordinary mind proceed largely from its subjection to the reactions of the nervous system and the body. ...it gets rid of the Hathayogic complexity and cumbrousness while it utilises... the system proceeds to the perfect quieting of the restless mind and its elevation to a higher plane through concentration of mental force by the successive stages which lead to the utmost inner concentration or ingathered state of the consciousness which is called Samadhi. <ref>
http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-systems-of-yoga#p12
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===Prerequisites for Rajayoga===
Rajayoga also uses the Pranayama and for the same principal psychic purposes as the Hathayoga, but being in its whole principle a psychical system, ...but insists first on a moral purification of the mentality…divided in the established system under two heads, five "yamas" and five "niyamas". ...The object is to create a moral calm, a void of the passions, and so prepare for the death of egoism in the rajasic human being. ...a discipline of the mind by regular practices of which the highest is meditation on the divine "Being", and their object is to create a sattwic calm, purity and preparation for concentration upon which the secure pursuance of the rest of the Yoga can be founded. <ref>
http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/rajayoga#p5
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===What is Samadhi?===
There are almost as many ways of arriving at Samadhi as there are different paths of Yoga. ...All Yoga is in its nature an attempt and an arriving at unity with the Supreme,—unity with the being of the Supreme.
...to these two systems, to Rajayoga and Hathayoga, …in spite of the wide difference of their methods from that of the path of knowledge, they have this same principle as their final justification. ….for in a synthetic and integral Yoga they take a secondary importance; their aims have indeed to be included, but their methods can either altogether be dispensed with or used only for a preliminary or else a casual assistance.
<ref> book synthesis of yoga.</ref>
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This is the first step only. …the system proceeds to the perfect quieting of the restless mind and its elevation to a higher plane through concentration of mental force by the successive stages which lead to the utmost inner concentration or ingathered state of the consciousness which is called Samadhi.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-systems-of-yoga#p12</ref>
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Intimately connected with the aim of the Yoga of Knowledge. ...is not so all-important in the Yoga of devotion, but it still has its place there as the swoon of being into which the ecstasy of divine love casts the soul. ...It is evident that where our objective includes the possession of the Divine in life, a state of cessation of life cannot be the last consummating step or the highest desirable condition: Yogic trance cannot be an aim, as in so many Yogic systems, but only a means, and a means not of escape from the waking existence, but to enlarge and raise the whole seeing, living and active consciousness. <ref>
http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/samadhi#p1</ref>
==Bhakti Yoga==
Bhakti in itself is as wide as the heart-yearning of the soul for the Divine. ...yoga of Bhakti resolves itself simply into these four movements, the desire of the Soul when it turns towards God and the straining of its emotion towards him, the pain of love and the divine return of love, the delight of love possessed and the play of that delight, and the eternal enjoyment of the divine Lover which is the heart of celestial bliss. These are things that are at once too simple and too profound for methodising or for analysis. ….how the way of devotion enters into a synthetic and integral Yoga, what place it takes there and how its principle affects the other principles of divine living. <ref>
http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-way-of-devotion#p1
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=Different Systems of Yoga=