Raja means king, sovereign or supreme. Yoga means link or union. The word yoke comes from it, to join together. Therefore, Raja Yoga is the link with the Supreme, or the link with God. Another definition is, that link which makes me sovereign. Sovereign over my own self, over my own mind; because it is in the mind that happiness and sorrow are experienced. In Raja Yoga, we learn to think the thoughts we want to think; rather than the thoughts we are used to thinking. Because the thoughts we are used to thinking often times cause us sorrow. Raja Yoga is about re-emerging your original and eternal qualities of peace, love, purity, bliss and power. (less)