“...if we divide the human torso into three departments it might be stated that:
1. Karma Yoga resulted in the awakening of the four centres below the diaphragm,
2. Bhakti Yoga resulted in their transmutation and transference into the two centres above the diaphragm, yet in the torso, the heart and the throat.
3. Raja Yoga synthesises all the forces of the body in the head and from there distributes and controls them.”
“It might be of value here if we dealt with the various "yogas" so as to give to the student a clear concept as to their distinctions and thus cultivate his discrimination. The principal yogas are three in number, the various other so-called "yogas" finding their place in one of these three groups:
1. Raja Yoga...the yoga of the mind or will,
2. Bhakti Yoga... the yoga of the heart or the devotee,
3. Karma Yoga.... the yoga of action.”
“Raja Yoga stands by itself and is the king science of them all; it is the summation of all the others... Karma Yoga has a specific relation to physical plane activity, and to the working out into objective manifestation of all the inner impulses. In its ancient and simplest form it was the yoga of the third or Lemurian root race and its two best known expressions are: a. Hatha Yoga, b. Laya Yoga. The former has specifically to do with the physical body, its conscious (not subconscious and automatic) functioning and all the various practices which give man control over the different organs and the entire mechanical apparatus of the physical body. The latter has to do with the etheric body, with the force centers or chakras found in that body...”