What is Kriya Yoga?

What is Kriya Yoga?

Aim of all yoga and yogic practices throughout the world is to know true nature of self; the self realization. There are so many techniques developed by different super masters from the different religions of the world. Some of which are slow and simple while others are sharp and fast. Kriya yoga is a great scientific technique of self realization and brought to the world by Paramhansa Yogananda. Paramhansa Yogananda; through his of great work - Autobiography of a Yogi. 

Kriya yoga is an aeroplanic way to the path of Self Realization. It's give you a potential technique with the help of which you received amazing results. 

Kriya Yoga was lost for centuries in the dark ages, and reintroduced in modern times by Mahavatar Babaji, whose disciple Lahiri was the first to teach it openly in our era. Later, Babaji asked Lahiri Mahasaya's disciple, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, to train Paramahansa Yogananda and send him to the West to give this soul-revealing technique to the world.

Mahaavtaar Baba Ji

Techniques of Kriya Yoga 

According to Paramhansa Yogananda techniques of kriya yoga is divided into 4 parts. Last part is original Kriya technique and is propagated through master-discipleship relationship only. 

4 parts are:-

1. Energization Exercises - A series of some special exercises developed by Paramhansa Yogananda. These special exercises involve physical exercise and progressive propagation of awareness through different body parts. Regular practice of these exercises promotes mental and physical relaxation and develops dynamic will power. Making use of the breath, life force, and concentrated attention, the technique enables one to draw abundant energy consciously into the body, purifying and strengthening all the body parts systematically in turn.

2. Hong-Sau Technique of Concentration - Thus technique involve breathe awareness. Through practice of this technique one learns to withdraw thought and energy from outward world and turned to inner self.

3. Aum Technique of Meditation -  This great technique involves expansion of oneself toward one's own origin. One practice to attune with the cosmic vibrations. The technique expands the awareness beyond limitations of body and mind to the joyous realization of one's infinite potential.

4. Kriya Yoga Technique - Kriya is an advanced technique of Rajyoga pranayam. Kriya reinforces and revitalizes subtle currents of life energy (prana) in the spine and brain. The yogis discovered that by revolving the life current continuously up and down the spine by the special technique of Kriya Yoga, it is possible to greatly accelerate one's spiritual evolution and awareness.

Correct practice of Kriya Yoga enables the normal activities of the heart and lungs and nervous system to slow down naturally, producing deep inner stillness of body and mind and freeing the attention from the usual turbulence of thoughts, emotions, and sensory perceptions. 

How to learn Kriya yoga 

Best source to learn Kriya yoga is from YSS (Yogoda Satsang Society). YSS was founded by Paramhansa Yogananda in 1917. You can join YSS through their website http://www.yssofindia.org. Once you get registered you would start getting Kriya Yoga Lessons and after receiving 52 lessons you would become eligible for kriya yoga diksha.   

What is Spiritual Relaxation?

Spiritual relaxation is a method for you to be completely relaxed by being "in the moment" and enjoy what's going on around you. Don't forget to experience who is actually relaxing. This would be helpful to cope with any type of anxiety disorder.

According to Swami Shivananda Yoga - "Complete mental and physical relaxation can only be experienced by going within and connecting with a higher power. As long as we continue to identify ourselves with the body and the mind, we will feel alone in the world."

Stress and worrying about the future are the unavoidable consequences of this type of thinking. Through spiritual relaxation you will realise that all happiness comes from within. Yoga relaxation techniques help us establish this inner connection and to overcome the obstacles which separate us from our true Self as well as from other people.

Spiritual relaxation can give you a healthy life and life style. It is most difficult to manage one's own thoughts. Actually we all are products of our own thoughts. We are also victims of our own thought and thought patterns.  

Area of spiritual relaxation is beyond our thinking because it helps one in all aspects of life. It teaches us 'how to think correctly'. Its helps us to differentiate our negative thoughts from the positive thoughts. It helps us to keep healthy thoughts within us which in turn helps us to cope with negativity and psychosomatic diseases. 

Everyone on this earth irrespective of race and religion needs spiritual relaxation. As this term is related to religion. There are different ways and methods to practice spiritual relaxation. The main point is to be aware at all and at all the times. Starting point is to be aware of your different body parts one by one and after this step start watching your breath and then start watching your thoughts. 

There are two things; one is you are thinking and other is mind is thinking. One who is speaking to you continuously is your mind. it is giving you different thoughts. Like other appliances and organs mind too needs energy to run and it always uses your energies. Through the power of awareness it take energy from you. Mind will blow off your thoughts here and there and then come back to you and you would be aware of that moment. At that moment the mind would catch energy from you. But mind immediately blow you off somewhere and you wouldn't be understand what happened actually. 

Spiritual relaxation means you are thinking all times not the mind. When mind thinks; it's by product is exhaustion and when you think it leaves relaxation.

What is consciousness?

I am Experiencing "I am"

The most sophisticated thinkers left tongue-tied and confused on the very mysterious topic of consciousness.

The abstract noun “consciousness” is not frequently used by itself in the contemporary literature, but is originally derived from the Latin con (with) and scire (to know).

Dictionary definition of consciousness is - "the state of being aware of and responsive to one's surroundings." or " a person's awareness or perception of something."

Our personal feeling about the consciousness and the essence of awareness is the 'something unknown' that makes us, us? Something lovely apparently buried inside us is aware of ourselves and of our world. More clearly; I am experiencing myself and simultaneously I am experiencing the world too. 

The curiosity about the world and things and realization of "i-ness" and realization of the outer world around is only due to this consciousness. Consciousness is the window through which we understand everything.  

The only reason why one experience life and aliveness is because he/she is conscious. If you are unconscious, you do not know whether you are alive or dead.

Perhaps the most commonly used contemporary notion of a conscious mental state is captured by Thomas Nagel’s famous “what it is like” sense. When I am in a conscious mental state, there is something it is like for me to be in that state from the subjective or first-person point of view.

So at the base level consciousness is the fact of being awake and processing information. But being conscious is also a neurological phenomenon, and it is part of what allows us to exist and understand ourselves in the world.      

 There are about one hundred billion interacting neurons in human brain. How the network neurons compute information is generally known to a Neuroscientists but how the human brain would know this is a mystery. 

Dr. Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist from the University of Southern California who has studied the neurological basis of consciousness for years, says, "Many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have," It means there are different levels of consciousness but universal consciousness is the same everywhere. What is actually different is the way one precepts and experiencing the consciousness. 

More interesting is that human being also experience it differently. It means different people are experiencing different level of consciousness. My consciousness level is different than that of you and your consciousness level will be different than your friend or your mother. father and other persons you know.

The story of consciousness would going to very interesting further in my coming articles. 

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The simplest way to heal yourself?

Cosmic Healing

Healing is the process of the restoration of health from an unbalanced, diseased or damaged organism. This is the biological definition of healing. In this process the cells in the body regenerate and repair to reduce the size of a damaged or necrotic area and replace it with new living tissue.

What I want to reveal about healing is different than its biological or medical definition. I am talking about healing from energies and through energies. This healing is a natural process and is a flow of beneficial energies between two persons or between cosmos and a person or an animal or a plant. In my opinion one can heal anything. Healing can be helpful with a wide range of conditions, sometimes to a remarkable degree. It is a process of revitalisation, relaxation and release at a profound level, which helps your body to adjust and heal spontaneously at its own pace and in its own way.

Healing has a remarkable position in different religions and cultures. There are couple of practices of healing and are some rules to practice those practices. What I want to tell you is a simple one. There is no big rules to perform this healing process but results are amazing. If you would try your will definitely get results. You just need to be calm yourself. 

Sit in any comfortable position. First think about of some positive and pleasure moments of your life. Concentrate your mind at those happy moments again and again. By doing this a positive energy would begins to flow within you. Now think about a big mountain and a river. Just concentrate on the river flowing on a mountain. Try to listen the sound of water there. 

Cosmic Energy

Now think about the cosmos and the unseen cosmic energy. A unseen cosmos energy is always there in the cosmos and around you too. Today we shall direct that unseen cosmic energy to heal ourselves. 

Close your eyes. Feel the cosmic energy in deep blue color and this cosmic energy is in abundance in the cosmos. You can direct this cosmic energy to where you want to send it. You can do this. Everyone can do this. Put all your awareness on that energy and direct that energy toward your body through the skull. Feel the tickling sensation of cosmic energy entering into your body through your skull. The cosmic blue light is filling within you is rejuvenating you. Take this tickling sensation to all parts of your body slowly slowly. Feel the cosmic energy and feel the tickling sensation. Direct this cosmic sensation to each and every cell of your body. Take this energy through tickling sensation to your heart, your kidneys, your liver, lungs and so on. Rejuvenate all parts, all organs, all cells of your body. 

Cosmic Lights

Enjoy the healing process and take your time. Now stop thinking about that energy. Be aware of your mind. What is exactly there now, anything positive or negative. Just be with that. Again think about mountain and river. Try to listen the sound of water there. Be aware of your surrounding now. Be aware of surrounding sounds. You are healed now. Enjoy the results.