kriya yoga

Kriya Yoga

Kriya Yoga is described by its practitioners as the ancient Yoga system.
21. Personality Development
The word personality comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask or covering. The formless soul is covered with the three bodies of ignorance (causal), thought (astral) and gross activity (physical). Man suffers from weak personality because of falsehood, hypocrisy, jealousy, ego, arrogance, malice, duplicity, all negative qualities. All these negative qualities diminish the standard of human personality.By the practice of Kriya Yoga, one will be free from all negative qualities of human life. Love will flourish. The bond of friendship will be stronger. The body will be beautiful till death. Ones appearance will be loving, pleasant, convincing and divine. One will have a sweet and balanced talk. By carefully avoiding unnecessary godless chatter, one will get immense mental, intellectual and spiritual energy by the techniques of Kriya Yoga. Ones own power of understanding will increase, so also the power to take decision in a critical moment.All the noble and divine wishes will be fulfilled. One will get thorough control over the restless and turbulent senses. Selfcontent, selfdiscipline and Godconsciousness will bring a change in ones life. Kriya Yoga brings change in the entire human personality, making one free from falsehood and all negatives, and constantly absorbed in truth and divinity.
22. Spiritual Growth
Selfrealization is ones birthright and the highest objective of human life. The power of God is ever present, but one is not able to perceive it constantly, in every moment, due to delusion, illusion and error.Kriya Yoga enables constant soulawareness, in every breath, in every thought and every moment. It quickens spiritual evolution and takes one to the door of spiritual realization in a short time.Free from unnecessary hardship of other socalled yoga of bodygymnastic, with a little effort and endeavor, one gets ample spiritual harvest. However the necessary precondition is to practice the technique with love, daily, regularly and sincerely with implicit faith on God and guru.

Kriya Yoga meditation enables one to feel that God and His creation are one. Constant happiness, peace, bliss and joy will be the constant companions of one who practices Kriya Yoga.Few words cannot explain or highlight the immense benefits of the marvelous technique of Kriya Yoga. The real path is perceived by the one who follows, practices and realizes.

23. Dangers to Kriya yoga
Kriya yoga is absolutely safe for everybody. Anyone who has an inclination towards better health of mind and body can practice it. The only thing that you need to be aware of is that you should always learn the practice from a reputed guru. The reason for this is that selfawareness brings with it complications that can very well unhinge an unprepared person (someone who does not receive guidance from a learned guru). If you want to practice yoga yourself, it is better to try mindfulness meditation or practice asanas (postures).Yoga is based on love and understanding and awareness of oneself is achieved by understanding our place in this universe.
24. Open Oneself to the Blessings of God
Prayer with devotion is a wonderful means of opening oneself to the freely flowing blessings of God, a necessary link of mans life to the Infinite Source of all benefaction. But it takes a long time for prayer to be effective when the mind is outwardly roaming. That is why one hour of Kriya Yoga meditation can bestow more effect than twentyfour hours of ordinary prayer.Those who practice the technique of Kriya deeply for even a little while, and sit long in meditation in the resultant stillness, find that the force of their prayer is doubled, trebled, a hundred times more powerful. If one enters the inner temple of silence and worships before the altar of God with prayer and invocation of His presence, he comes quickly. When the consciousness is withdrawn from the sensory surface of the body and its surroundings and centralized in the cerebrospinal shrines of soul perception, that is the most effective time to pray.
25. Highest Method of God Contact
Kriya Yoga is the highest method of God contact. In my own search for God I traveled all over India, and heard wisdom from the lips of a number of her greatest masters. I can therefore vouch for the fact that in SelfRealization teachings are the highest truths and scientific techniques given to mankind by God and the Great Ones.The aftereffects of Kriya bring with them the utmost peace and bliss. The joy that comes with Kriya is greater than the joys of all pleasurable physical sensations put together.
26. Eradicate Bad Mental Habits and Karma
Each of your habits creates a specific
27. Learn to Meditate
Paramahansa Yoganandas personal instructions on how to practice the science of Kriya Yoga meditation, taken from the classes he gave for more than thirty years, are presented in detail in the SelfRealization Fellowship Lessons.In addition, the Lessons provide his practical guidance and techniques for attaining balanced physical, mental, and spiritual well being the health, healing, success, and harmony that yoga bestows in every aspect of life. These howtolive principles are an absolutely essential component of any truly successful meditation practice.If you have not yet enrolled for the Lessons, you will find on these pages some basic instructions on how to meditate, which you can use right away to begin experiencing the peace and communion with the Divine that meditation brings.
28. Daily Practice
The meditation period should last at least thirty minutes in the morning and thirty minutes at night. The longer you sit, enjoying the state of meditative calm, the faster you will progress spiritually. Carry into your daily activities the calmness you feel in meditation; that calmness will help you to bring harmony and happiness into every department of your life.Through daily practice of the foregoing instructions, you can prepare yourself for the practice of the deeper techniques of concentration and meditation that are given in the SelfRealization Fellowship Lessons. These scientific techniques will enable you to dive ever more deeply in the great ocean of Gods presence. We all exist at this very moment in that ocean of Spirit; but only by steadfast, devoted, scientific meditation may we consciously perceive that we are individualized soul waves on the vast ocean of Gods bliss.
29. Pray Deeply to God
Whether you see the light of the spiritual eye or not, however, you should continue to concentrate at the Christ Consciousness center between the eyebrows, praying deeply to God and His great saints. In the language of your heart invoke Their presence and Their blessings.A good practice is to take an affirmation or a prayer from the SelfRealization Fellowship Lessons, or from Paramahansa Yoganandas Whispers from Eternity or Metaphysical Meditations, and spiritualize it with your own devotional yearning.Silently chant and pray to God, keeping the attention at the point between the eyebrows, until you feel Gods response as calm, deep peace and inner joy.
30. Focus Attention at the Spiritual Eye
With the eyelids half closed (or completely closed, if this is more comfortable to you), look upward, focusing the gaze and the attention as though looking out through a point between the eyebrows. (A person deep in concentration often knits his brows at this spot.) Do not cross the eyes or strain them; the upward gaze comes naturally when one is relaxed and calmly concentrated.

What is important is fixing the whole attention at the point between the eyebrows. This is the Christ Consciousness center, the seat of the single eye spoken of by Jesus The light of the body is the eye if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light (Matthew 622).When the purpose of meditation is fulfilled, the devotee finds his consciousness automatically concentrated at the spiritual eye, and he experiences, according to his inner spiritual capacity, a state of joyous divine union with Spirit.