The meditation path of Kriya Yoga
Through defined science of meditation, known for millennia by yogis and sages of India - and Jesus too - anyone who seeks God can extend the size of your consciousness to omniscience, to receive within itself the Universal Intelligence of God . "
Paramahansa Yogananda
Wisdom, creativity, security, happiness, unconditional love ... is really possible to find something that gives true and lasting happiness?
Experience divinity in the soul, claiming divine bliss as our own bliss - this is what the teachings of Kriya Yoga Paramahansa Yogananda offer each one of us.
The sacred science of Kriya Yoga consists of advanced meditation techniques whose regular practice leads to union with God and the release of all forms of slavery of the soul. It is the royal technique or supreme yoga , divine unity. (Read "What is really the Yoga ?" )
History of Kriya Yoga
The enlightened sages of India have discovered the spiritual science of Kriya Yoga in the distant past and it was forgotten for a long time. Lord Krishna praises the Bhagavad Gita and the sage Patanjali mentions in the Yoga Sutras. Paramahansa Yogananda said that Jesus Christ and some of his disciples, as St. John, St. Paul and others also knew this ancient meditation method.
The Kriya Yoga was lost in the Dark Ages and was reintroduced in modern times by Mahavatar Babaji. Lahiri Mahasaya, one of his disciples, was the first of the present time to openly teach Kriya Yoga. Later Babaji asked Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855-1936), a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya, who trained Paramahansa Yogananda and send him to the West to convey to the world this revealing technique soul.
Paramahansa Yogananda was chosen for its venerable lineage Gurus to bring to the West the ancient science of Kriya Yoga and it was for this purpose that he founded the Self-Realization Fellowship in 1920.
Before accessible only to the few faithful who renounced the world and took reclusive life as ascetics, the great masters of India today placed the ancient science of Kriya Yoga to reach the sincere seekers all over the world through Paramahansa Yogananda and spiritual organization he founded (SRF-YSS).
Yogananda wrote: "God blessed me before I left for the United States in 1920, Mahavatar Babaji told me that I had been chosen for this sacred mission: 'It was you who I chose to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West. Long I found your guru Yukteswar at a Kumbha Mela and then you said to send training. Kriya Yoga, the scientific technique of God - realization, will ultimately spread in all lands and help in harmonizing the nations through personal and transcendent perception that human beings have the Infinite Father. "
| | Jesus Christ and the Kriya Yoga One of the fundamental objectives of Paramahansa Yogananda's mission was " to reveal the basic unity and harmony between the original Christianity taught by Jesus Christ and Yoga original taught by Bhagavan Krishna, and show that these principles of truth are the common scientific foundation of all true religions. " For the general public, Jesus exposed a simple philosophy of faith, love and forgiveness. Often he used parables full of timeless moral meaning. But the close disciples he taught deeper truths that had full correspondence with profundíssimos metaphysical concepts of yogic philosophy, much older. In his extensive commentary on the Gospels, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You , Paramahansa Yogananda offers the full interpretation of the original teachings of Jesus, including the fact that he conveyed to his disciples the esoteric techniques of yogic meditation . |
Meditation techniques of the path of Kriya Yoga
Paramahansa Yogananda gives a description of Kriya Yoga in Autobiography of a Yogi . The exact technique is given to students of the Lessons of Self-Realization Fellowship after a preliminary period of study and practice of the three preparatory techniques Paramahansa Yogananda taught.
Practiced together as a complete system, the techniques give the practitioner the ability to obtain the highest possible benefits and achieve the divine purpose of the ancient science of yoga .
1. Exercise Energizing: psychophysical exercises that prepare the body for meditation, developed by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1916. The regular practice of exercise provides mental and physical relaxation and develops dynamic will power. Using breath, life force and concentrated attention, the technique makes it possible to attract abundant energy consciously into the body, purifying and strengthening all its parts, one after another. Exercises of the energization, which are made in about 15 minutes, are very effective ways to eliminate stress and nervous tension. When practiced before meditating, they are of great help to enter the quietude in the state of internalized awareness.
2. Concentration Technique Hong-Only : helps develop the latent powers of concentration. With practice this technique one learns to withdraw thought and energy external distractions in order to focus them on any goal or problem that needs solution. We can also use the concentrated attention to perceive the Divine Consciousness in us.
3. Meditation Technique Om : . Teaches the use of the power of concentration of the highest form, that is, use it to discover and perfect the divine qualities of our true Self This ancient method teaches us to experience the omnipresent Divine Presence as Om , the Word and the Holy Spirit that is in all creation and sustains it . The technique allows expand consciousness beyond the body limitations and mind, allowing us to reach the blissful awareness of our infinite potential.
4. Technical Kriya Yog : a Kriya is an advanced technique Raja Yoga of pranayama (life energy control) that reinforces and revitalizes subtle currents of life energy (prana) in the spine and brain. The ancient seers of India (rishis) realized that the brain and the spine are the tree of life. The subtle cerebrospinal centers of life and consciousness (chakras) flows the energy that gives life to all the nerves, organs and body tissues. Yogis found that continuously moving up and down the life current (prana) along the spinal column with the special technique of Kriya Yoga,
The correct practice of Kriya Yoga makes the normal activity of the heart, lungs and nervous system to slow down naturally, which causes deep body of inner tranquility and mind and frees the attention of the normal turbulence of thoughts, emotions and sensory perceptions . In the clarity of inner serenity we felt a peace ever deeper and harmonize with our soul and God.
How to learn Kriya Yoga
The first step is to ask the Lessons of Self-Realization Fellowship . In the first home study year students learn three basic techniques of meditation (described above) and the principles of balanced life, given by Paramahansaji.
This gradual introduction has a purpose. As the climber you want to climb the Himalayas has to acclimatise and prepare physically before climbing to the summit, the engine also needs an initial period to acclimatize their habits and thoughts, prepare the mind with devotion and concentration and work in practice to direct the body 's vital energy. So the yogi is able to ascend the autopista performing through the spine. After a year of practice and preparation, the student meets the requirements to request the initiation of technical Kriya Yoga and formally establish the consecrated guru-disciple relationship with Paramahansa Yogananda and his lineage of enlightened masters.
If you have not signed up to receive the Lessons of Self-Realization Fellowship, here is some basic instructions to meditate , you can start practicing soon and start to feel like the benefits of meditation.
The guru-disciple relationship
Kriya Yoga is the diksha (initiation) or spiritual baptism of the Self-Realization Fellowship. Upon receiving the initiation into Kriya student enters the sacred guru-disciple relationship, accepting Paramahansa Yogananda as his guru (spiritual guide).
