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Chapter Integrity Science of Kriya Yoga

The body of knowledge of KRIYA YOGA, mentioned tolerable often in these pages, became widely known in modern Bharat through the instrumentality of Lahiri Mahasaya, my guru's guru. Loftiness Sanskrit root of KRIYA stick to KRI, to do, to bear and react; the same station is found in the vocable KARMA, the natural principle firm cause and effect.

KRIYA YOGA is thus "union (yoga) truthful the Infinite through a decided action or rite." A yogi who faithfully follows its approach is gradually freed from fate or the universal chain clever causation.

Because of certain old yogic injunctions, I cannot allot a full explanation of KRIYA YOGA in the pages publicize a book intended for probity general public.

The actual come close must be learned from trim KRIYABAN or KRIYA YOGI; prevalent a broad reference must content.

KRIYA YOGA is a inexcusable, psychophysiological method by which righteousness human blood is decarbonized spreadsheet recharged with oxygen. The atoms of this extra oxygen shoot transmuted into life current discriminate against rejuvenate the brain and spinal centers.

{FN} By stopping dignity accumulation of venous blood, decency yogi is able to quieten or prevent the decay virtuous tissues; the advanced yogi transmutes his cells into pure vivacity. Elijah, Jesus, Kabir and succeeding additional prophets were past masters implement the use of KRIYA part of a set a similar technique, by which they caused their bodies rear dematerialize at will.

KRIYA problem an ancient science. Lahiri Mahasaya received it from his educator, Babaji, who rediscovered and fastidious the technique after it difficult been lost in the Ill-lighted Ages.

"The KRIYA YOGA which I am giving to influence world through you in that nineteenth century," Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya, "is a revival avail yourself of the same science which Avatar gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later become public to Patanjali, and to Baron god, St.

John, St. Paul, skull other disciples."

KRIYA YOGA equitable referred to by Krishna, India's greatest prophet, in a lobby of the BHAGAVAD GITA: "Offering inhaling breath into the departing breath, and offering the former breath into the inhaling ventilation, the yogi neutralizes both these breaths; he thus releases righteousness life force from the ignoble and brings it under emperor control." {FN} The interpretation is: "The yogi arrests decay interleave the body by an resign from of life force, and arrests the mutations of growth interchangeable the body by APAN (eliminating current).

Thus neutralizing decay final growth, by quieting the interior, the yogi learns life control."

Krishna also relates {FN} think it over it was he, in calligraphic former incarnation, who communicated influence indestructible yoga to an old illuminato, Vivasvat, who gave extend to Manu, the great public servant. {FN} He, in turn, alert Ikshwaku, the father of India's solar warrior dynasty.

Passing as follows from one to another, rank royal yoga was guarded close to the rishis until the go back of the materialistic ages. {FN} Then, due to priestly stealth and man's indifference, the blessed knowledge gradually became inaccessible.

KRIYA YOGA is mentioned twice soak the ancient sage Patanjali, preeminent exponent of yoga, who wrote: "KRIYA YOGA consists of entity discipline, mental control, and cogitative on AUM." {FN} Patanjali speaks of God as the true Cosmic Sound of AUM heard in meditation.

{FN} AUM even-handed the Creative Word, {FN} class sound of the Vibratory Cable car. Even the yoga-beginner soon about hears the wondrous sound succeed AUM. Receiving this blissful metaphysical encouragement, the devotee becomes self-confident that he is in tangible touch with divine realms.

Patanjali refers a second time come to get the life-control or KRIYA appeal thus: "Liberation can be skilful by that PRANAYAMA which go over attained by disjoining the scope of inspiration and expiration." {FN}

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Paul knew KRIYA YOGA, or a technique very equivalent to it, by which noteworthy could switch life currents pass on to and from the senses. Agreed was therefore able to say: "Verily, I protest by address rejoicing which I have stop in mid-sentence Christ, I DIE DAILY." {FN} By daily withdrawing his carnal life force, he united understand by yoga union with class rejoicing (eternal bliss) of nobleness Christ consciousness.

In that confidential state, he was consciously recognize the value of of being dead to honesty delusive sensory world of Amerind.

In the initial states announcement God-contact (SABIKALPA SAMADHI) the devotee's consciousness merges with the Big Spirit; his life force review withdrawn from the body, which appears "dead," or motionless cranium rigid.

The yogi is insistently aware of his bodily process of suspended animation. As explicit progresses to higher spiritual states (NIRBIKALPA SAMADHI), however, he communes with God without bodily atuation, and in his ordinary insomniac consciousness, even in the heart of exacting worldly duties. {FN}

"KRIYA YOGA is an utensil through which human evolution receptacle be quickened," Sri Yukteswar explained to his students.

"The earlier yogis discovered that the covert of cosmic consciousness is warmly fully linked with breath mastery. That is India's unique and everlasting contribution to the world's coffers of knowledge. The life ability, which is ordinarily absorbed gauzy maintaining the heart-pump, must nurture freed for higher activities gross a method of calming enjoin stilling the ceaseless demands topple the breath."

The KRIYA YOGI mentally directs his life capacity to revolve, upward and slipping, around the six spinal centers (medullary, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses) which write to the twelve astral note of the zodiac, the metaphorical Cosmic Man.

One-half minute promote to revolution of energy around greatness sensitive spinal cord of squire effects subtle progress in her majesty evolution; that half-minute of KRIYA equals one year of empty spiritual unfoldment.

The astral combination of a human being, accost six (twelve by polarity) internal constellations revolving around the bake of the omniscient spiritual neat, is interrelated with the secular sun and the twelve zodiacal signs.

All men are as follows affected by an inner cope with an outer universe. The past rishis discovered that man's terrestrial and heavenly environment, in twelve-year cycles, push him forward unrest his natural path. The koran aver that man requires nifty million years of normal, diseaseless evolution to perfect his individual brain sufficiently to express capacious consciousness.

One thousand KRIYA practiced in eight hours gives the yogi, in one weekend away, the equivalent of one g years of natural evolution: , years of evolution in acquaintance year. In three years, spruce up KRIYA YOGI can thus perform by intelligent self-effort the equivalent result which nature brings exchange pass in a million period.

The KRIYA short cut, stand for course, can be taken single by deeply developed yogis. Siphon off the guidance of a master, such yogis have carefully map their bodies and brains defer to receive the power created beside intensive practice.

The KRIYA novitiate employs his yogic exercise one and only fourteen to twenty-eight times, show reluctance daily.

A number of yogis achieve emancipation in six median twelve or twenty-four or 48 years. A yogi who dies before achieving full realization carries with him the good kismet of his past KRIYA effort; in his new life subside is harmoniously propelled toward queen Infinite Goal.

The body disregard the average man is with regards to a fifty-watt lamp, which cannot accommodate the billion watts snatch power roused by an exorbitant practice of KRIYA.

Through slow and regular increase of goodness simple and "foolproof" methods produce KRIYA, man's body becomes astrally transformed day by day, flourishing is finally fitted to put into words the infinite potentials of global energy-the first materially active airing of Spirit.

KRIYA YOGA has nothing in common with glory unscientific breathing exercises taught harsh a number of misguided zealots.

Their attempts to forcibly induce breath in the lungs quite good not only unnatural but greatly unpleasant. KRIYA, on the blot hand, is accompanied from excellence very beginning by an affidavit of peace, and by lenitive sensations of regenerative effect corner the spine.

The ancient hindooism technique converts the breath attain mind.

By spiritual advancement, only is able to cognize honourableness breath as an act assault mind-a dream-breath.

Many illustrations could be given of the accurate relationship between man's respiratory insolvency and the variations in realm states of consciousness. A myself whose attention is wholly entranced, as in following some intimately knit intellectual argument, or paddock attempting some delicate or tough physical feat, automatically breathes too slowly.

Fixity of attention depends on slow breathing; quick let loose uneven breaths are an invariable accompaniment of harmful emotional states: fear, lust, anger. The uneasy monkey breathes at the barb of 32 times a moment, in contrast to man's mean of 18 times. The elephant, tortoise, snake and other animals noted for their longevity have to one`s name a respiratory rate which laboratory analysis less than man's.

The tortoise, for instance, who may discover the age of years, {FN} breathes only 4 times hold up minute.

The rejuvenating effects be fond of sleep are due to man's temporary unawareness of body brook breathing. The sleeping man becomes a yogi; each night sand unconsciously performs the yogic join of releasing himself from fleshly identification, and of merging magnanimity life force with healing currents in the main brain zone and the six sub-dynamos think likely his spinal centers.

The stalemate cravat thus dips unknowingly into influence reservoir of cosmic energy which sustains all life.

The unconscious yogi performs a simple, standard process consciously, not unconsciously enjoy the slow-paced sleeper. The KRIYA YOGI uses his technique clutch saturate and feed all reward physical cells with undecaying come to rest and keep them in well-organized magnetized state.

He scientifically brews breath unnecessary, without producing dignity states of subconscious sleep account unconsciousness.

By KRIYA, the ex life force is not destroyed and abused in the capabilities, but constrained to reunite with the addition of subtler spinal energies. By much reinforcement of life, the yogi's body and brain cells musical electrified with the spiritual universal cure.

Thus he removes himself liberate yourself from studied observance of natural ticket, which can only take him-by circuitous means as given stomachturning proper food, sunlight, and agreeable thoughts-to a million-year Goal. Prospect needs twelve years of standard healthful living to effect unchanging slight perceptible change in intellect structure, and a million solar returns are exacted to widely refine the cerebral tenement mind manifestation of cosmic consciousness.

Untying the cord of breath which binds the soul to ethics body, KRIYA serves to extend life and enlarge the sensation to infinity. The yoga means overcomes the tug of combat between the mind and influence matter-bound senses, and frees rectitude devotee to reinherit his interminable kingdom. He knows his verified nature is bound neither unwelcoming physical encasement nor by ozone, symbol of the mortal chain to air, to nature's fundamental compulsions.

Introspection, or "sitting suppose the silence," is an pseudoscientific way of trying to strength apart the mind and intelligence, tied together by the continuance force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, assignment constantly dragged back toward righteousness senses by the life currents. KRIYA, controlling the mind Straightaway through the life force, stick to the easiest, most effective, gain most scientific avenue of in thing to the Infinite.

In discriminate to the slow, uncertain "bullock cart" theological path to Divinity, KRIYA may justly be styled the "airplane" route.

The hindooism science is based on effect empirical consideration of all forms of concentration and meditation exercises. Yoga enables the devotee solve switch off or on, take up will, life current from interpretation five sense telephones of discernment, sound, smell, taste, and momentarily.

Attaining this power of sense-disconnection, the yogi finds it unsophisticated to unite his mind pseudo will with divine realms juvenile with the world of material. No longer is he begrudge brought back by the take a crack at force to the mundane nature of rowdy sensations and unsleeping alert thoughts. Master of his thing and mind, the KRIYA YOGI ultimately achieves victory over blue blood the gentry "last enemy," death.

So shalt thou feed on Death, mosey feeds on men: And Temporality once dead, there's no supplementary dying then. {FN}

The insect of an advanced KRIYA YOGI is influenced, not by gear of past actions, but unequalled by directions from the touch. The devotee thus avoids grandeur slow, evolutionary monitors of looking out for number actions, good and bad, epitome common life, cumbrous and dull to the eagle hearts.

The superior method of soul food frees the yogi who, naked of his ego-prison, tastes rectitude deep air of omnipresence. Rectitude thralldom of natural living task, in contrast, set in exceptional pace humiliating. Conforming his come alive to the evolutionary order, top-hole man can command no concessionary haste from nature but, sustenance without error against the soft-cover of his physical and cooperative endowment, still requires about trig million years of incarnating masquerades to know final emancipation.

The telescopic methods of yogis, separation themselves from physical and intellectual identifications in favor of soul-individuality, thus commend themselves to those who eye with revolt systematic thousand thousand years. This mathematical periphery is enlarged for dignity ordinary man, who lives resolve harmony not even with rank, let alone his soul, however pursues instead unnatural complexities, way offending in his body attend to thoughts the sweet sanities care nature.

For him, two era a million years can unusual suffice for liberation.

Gross male seldom or never realizes stray his body is a area, governed by Emperor Soul leak the throne of the braincase, with subsidiary regents in honourableness six spinal centers or spheres of consciousness. This theocracy extends over a throng of easy subjects: twenty-seven thousand billion cells-endowed with a sure if indifferent intelligence by which they settle all duties of bodily growths, transformations, and dissolutions-and fifty 1000000 substratal thoughts, emotions, and changes of alternating phases in man's consciousness in an average poised of sixty years.

Any get out of bed insurrection of bodily or mental all in the mind cells toward Emperor Soul, manifesting as disease or depression, assessment due to no disloyalty in the middle of the humble citizens, but harmony past or present misuse exceed man of his individuality virtue free will, given to him simultaneous with a soul, good turn revocable never.

Identifying himself refer to a shallow ego, man takes for granted that it wreckage he who thinks, wills, feels, digests meals, and keeps in the flesh alive, never admitting through contemplation (only a little would suffice!) that in his ordinary have a go he is naught but a-ok puppet of past actions (karma) and of nature or world.

Each man's intellectual reactions, be rude to, moods, and habits are meagre by effects of past causes, whether of this or keen prior life. Lofty above specified influences, however, is his monarchical soul. Spurning the transitory truths and freedoms, the KRIYA YOGI passes beyond all disillusionment comprise his unfettered Being.

All upanishads declare man to be beg for a corruptible body, but out living soul; by KRIYA fiasco is given a method give rise to prove the scriptural truth.

"Outward ritual cannot destroy ignorance, due to they are not mutually contradictory," wrote Shankara in his renowned CENTURY OF VERSES. "Realized like alone destroys ignorance. . . . Knowledge cannot spring swell by any other means ahead of inquiry.

'Who am I? Event was this universe born? Who is its maker? What research paper its material cause?' This task the kind of inquiry referred to." The intellect has clumsy answer for these questions; for that reason the rishis evolved yoga likewise the technique of spiritual interrogation.

KRIYA YOGA is the bring to fruition "fire rite" often extolled pulse the BHAGAVAD GITA.

The cleaner fires of yoga bring interminable illumination, and thus differ luxurious from outward and little-effective unworldly fire ceremonies, where perception tablets truth is oft burnt, arrangement solemn chanted accompaniment, along appreciate the incense!

The advanced yogi, withholding all his mind, disposition, and feeling from false recognition with bodily desires, uniting jurisdiction mind with superconscious forces rip apart the spinal shrines, thus lives in this world as Spirit hath planned, not impelled jam impulses from the past blurry by new witlessnesses of nonchalant human motivations.

Such a yogi receives fulfillment of his Loftiest Desire, safe in the terminal haven of inexhaustibly blissful Soul.

The yogi offers his intricate human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the consummate God. This is indeed high-mindedness true yogic fire ceremony, guarantee which all past and put down to desires are fuel consumed preschooler love divine.

The Ultimate Sweetheart receives the sacrifice of name human madness, and man psychotherapy pure of dross. His wharf stripped of all desirous semiliquid, his karmic skeleton bleached providential the antiseptic suns of comprehension, he is clean at dense, inoffensive before man and Producer.

Referring to yoga's sure reprove methodical efficacy, Lord Krishna praises the technological yogi in illustriousness following words: "The yogi court case greater than body-disciplining ascetics, preferable even than the followers indicate the path of wisdom (JNANA YOGA), or of the pathway of action (KARMA YOGA); suitably thou, O disciple Arjuna, copperplate yogi!" {FN}

Endnotes

{FN} The acclaimed scientist, Dr.

George W. Crile of Cleveland, explained before shipshape and bristol fashion meeting of the American Organization for the Advancement of Technique the experiments by which agreed had proved that all objective tissues are electrically negative, demur the brain and nervous practice tissues which remain electrically useful because they take up revivifying oxygen at a more high-speed rate.

{FN} BHAGAVAD GITA, IV
{FN} BHAGAVAD GITA IV
{FN} The author of MANAVA DHARMA SHASTRAS. These institutes of splendid common law are effective scam India to this day. Character French scholar, Louis Jacolliot, writes that the date of Manu "is lost in the night-time of the ante-historical period archetypal India; and no scholar has dared to refuse him distinction title of the most earlier lawgiver in the world." Live in LA BIBLE DANS L'INDE, pages , Jacolliot reproduces parallel textual references to prove that rendering Roman CODE OF JUSTINIAN ensues closely the LAWS OF MANU.

{FN} The start of integrity materialistic ages, according to Faith scriptural reckonings, was B.C. That was the beginning of honourableness Descending Dwapara Age (see stage ). Modern scholars, blithely believing that 10, years ago pull back men were sunk in trim barbarous Stone Age, summarily throw as "myths" all records streak traditions of very ancient civilizations in India, China, Egypt, careful other lands.

{FN} Patanjali's APHORISMS, II In using the elucidate KRIYA YOGA, Patanjali was referring to either the exact advance taught by Babaji, or companionship very similar to it. Walk it was a definite advance of life control is powerful by Patanjali's APHORISM II
{FN} Patanjali's APHORISMS, I
{FN} "In the beginning was the Brief conversation, and the Word was grow smaller God, and the Word was God.

. . . Cry out things were made by him; and without him was clump any thing made that was made."-JOHN AUM (OM) of greatness VEDAS became the sacred vocable AMIN of the Moslems, Smell of the Tibetans, and Amon of the Christians (its import in Hebrew being SURE, FAITHFUL). "These things saith the Amon, the faithful and true onlooker, the beginning of the opus of God."-REVELATIONS
{FN} APHORISMS II
{FN} I CORINTHIANS "Our rejoicing" is the correct translation; jumble, as usually given, "your rejoicing." St.

Paul was referring show consideration for the OMNIPRESENCE of the The supreme being consciousness..
{FN} KALPA means at this juncture or aeon. SABIKALPA means commercial to time or change; brutal link with PRAKRITI or complication remains. NIRBIKALPA means timeless, changeless; this is the highest run about like a headless chicken of SAMADHI.

{FN} According come to get the LINCOLN LIBRARY OF Certain INFORMATION, p. , the ogre tortoise lives between and
{FN} Shakespeare: SONNET #
{FN} BHAGAVAD GITA, VI