Kriya Yoga is not sectarian or dogmatic. It can be considered as the essence of all religions. To be able to practise Kriya Yoga one should first receive an initiation. This means that body and soul will be purified energetically, so that one will be able to experience the divine manifestations of light, sound and vibration. Everyone who has been initiated into Kriya Yoga can participate in all the Kriya programmes; donation minimum 6 per meditation.
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Report this Document. Flag for inappropriate content. Download now. Related titles. Carousel Previous Carousel Next. Yogiraj Charit by Rev. Swami Swami is a title received from another Swami, signifying the highest order of renunciation. Swami means master of himself, or one who is trying to master himself.
A Swami recognizes no other family than the entire human family. Only a Swami can ordain another Swami. Yogi A Yogi is he who scientifically unites his soul with Spirit through the teachings of a Guru.
A Yogi may be a worldly man or a man of renunciation. One can have many teachers in the beginning of the study of difficult teachings, but one can have only one Guru, who leads him to God consciousness. The Guru is the vehicle through which God redeems a disciple from mental bondage. He who receives this lesson ought to take the preceptor of this lesson as Guru.
He would then be known as a Yogi or Yogodan or a Yogoda disciple. One can have many teachers before he settles down to one path and one Guru. Until he takes the one path and the one Guru, he is called a student, not a disciple.
Yogoda Student A Yogoda student is a Yogi. Student One who receives the Yogoda lessons is only a student. Disciple A disciple is he who advances in the Yogoda faith and strictly follows the path of Super-Realization as given in this lesson and as directed by one Guru. One has to live a life of discrimination in order to be a Swami or a Yogi.
Face east, sitting on a straight, armless chair, over which a woolen blanket has been placed, running down under the feet. Take a teaspoon of melted butter unsalted or olive oil. This is to grease the throat.
The butter or oil should not be swallowed quickly. Sip it slowly. It is extremely important to observe this rule, as the throat must be well greased. There should be no deviation from any of the methods given in this lesson. There are few rules. Obey them strictly. Posture 3. Correct posture: Spine erect; shoulder blades together; palms upward, resting on thighs; chest out; abdomen in; chin parallel to the ground; relax whole body, keeping spine straight.
The correct posture is extremely important. It will be almost altogether ineffectual to perform this exercise with a bent spine. With spine erect, relax all muscles and limbs. During the practice of this lesson the spine often bends forward unconsciously through bad habits. Straighten it as often as it bends, to gain the desired results.
After the correct posture has been attained, and all muscles and limbs are relaxed, practice the following exercise, called Kriya, for magnetizing the spine. He who practices Kriya is a Kriyaban or a true Brahmin or true twiceborn Christian, or a man of realization. He is born again as spoken of in the Christian Bible: "Except ye be born again, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
One may have had many teachers before, but when he finds his Guru he becomes the only one throughout life. The Guru is the vehicle of God through which God teaches and calls the disciple to Himself. The purpose of Kriya is to magnetize the spine by circulating life current lengthwise around it, and thereby withdrawing life current from the senses and involuntary organs and concentrating it in the spine.
This also helps to change the center of consciousness from the body and senses to the spine. The spinal column should be imagined as hollow when circulating the breath and life current lengthwise in and around it. Method 1. With half-opened eyes fixed at the Will Center the point between the eyebrows , concentrate on the whole spinal column, and imagine it to be a hollow tube running from the point between the eyebrows to the coccyx.
Inhale, feeling the breath pass through the inside of this imaginary hollow spinal canal, with the sound of "Hau" made by the expanded throat , thinking and feeling a cool breath and current starting from the coccyx at the terminal of the spine and moving upward until it reaches the top of the tube imagined as running up to the point between the eyebrows.
The duration of inhalation, with the thought of pulling the breath and current upward, must be ten to 15 counts. When the current and breath have reached the top of the spinal tube, the point between the eyebrows, slowly exhale, sending the breath and current over the forehead, through the cerebrum and on down the back of the spinal column to the coccyx. While exhaling, the current and breath must be felt as a fine thread-like, tepid slightly warm stream slowly going over the spine downward to the coccyx.
As you exhale, imagining the current to flow downward over the back of the spine, make the sound of "E" with the breath. When you inhale and exhale continuously, you quickly convert the oxygen into life-force, especially recharging lungs and blood.
Focusing the vision and the will at the point between the eyebrows, and imagining the circulation of the current and breath in and around the spine, will create a positive and a negative pole and bring about the actual circulation of this current. The Will Center becomes the positive pole and the coccygeal plexus becomes the negative pole. The current thus created becomes a magnet of energy which draws more energy from the nervous system and from the Cosmic Source.
By this method the adept is enabled to project this energy from Medulla into Cosmic Energy. It is then that this energy in the body loses its limitations and becomes identified with Cosmic Energy. This is what is meant by Pranayama or control of life-force in spine and heart and nervous system, which results in breathlessness and the calming down of heart and lungs.
It is then that the life-force, which is dependent on oxygen, loses its breath-slavery and moves spiritward. That is wrong. The real meaning of Pranayama, according to Patanjali, the founder of Yoga philosophy, is the gradual cessation of breathing, the discontinuance of inhalation and exhalation. Trying to control the life force by holding the breath in the lungs is extremely unscientific.
While inhaling and exhaling, imagine that the breath during inhalation is going upward from the coccyx to the point between the eyebrows; and during exhalation, imagine that it is moving downward over the back of the spinal column. The breath actually does not circulate around the whole length of the spine, but the increased life-force derived from the transmuted breath is directed by will and visualization to circulate lengthwise, within and without, through the inner and over the outer side of the spinal cord continuously during Kriya.
This converts the entire spine into a magnet which draws all the bodily current away from the senses and nerves. The five telephones of the senses — touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight — are thus disconnected and the attention freed from the invasion of the senses. This is also the greatest psycho-physical method for actually reversing the searchlights of life forces, consciousness and the senses from matter to spirit.
Drawing up and feeling a cool current and the breath within the inside of the spine, feeling a cool current from the coccyx to the point between the eyebrows, and spraying the current and breath as tepid over the back of the spinal tube from the point between the eyebrows down to the coccyx is equal to one compete Kriya exercise.
This exercise should be performed from one to fourteen times in immediate succession, morning and evening. Remember, there are two indications of the correct practice of Kriya. During inhalation, the upward-floating breath and current should produce a cool sensation throughout the entire length of the imaginary hollow in the spinal column, from the coccyx to the point between the eyebrows.
The inhalation must be accompanied throughout by the deep sound of "Hau" made by the expanded throat. During exhalation, the downward-floating breath and current should be felt as a tepid, fine, thread-like sensation, accompanied by the sound of "E" made by the expanded throat. Do not jerk the chest by moving it up and down with inhalation and exhalation, while practicing Kriya.
Always keep the throat expanded during this exercise. The expansion should be like that experienced in rolling the tongue backward toward the uvula. You may practice Kriya with an expanded throat by rolling the tongue backward. Drawing the breath and current upward must be accompanied by a deep, full sound of "Hau" made by the throat. Likewise, in sending the current downward over the spinal column, it must be fine, thread-like and tepid.
This exhalation must be accompanied by the sound of "E," made by the throat. The repetition of Kriya twelve to fourteen times equals one year's natural evolution in development of body, mind and soul.
The life current quickly spiritualizes the spine and brain, which in turn spiritualize the whole body. Hindu Yogis state that this current actually changes the atomic composition of the body cells. Ordinarily the progress of the human body, mind and soul keeps pace with the revolutions of the earth around the sun. Of course, this natural progress is retarded if disease, accidents, despondency or ignorance be permitted to invade the body, mind or soul.
Just as the Earth's complete revolution around the sun produces one year's effects in the human body, so the Yogis discovered that the time of human evolution could be quickened greatly by revolving the life-force the earthly physical energy around the elliptical path of the spinal cord and its six centers, upward from the coccyx to the point between the eyebrows, and downward from the point between the eyebrows to the coccyx, with the soul as the central sun.
The solar year through outside influences of rays and vibrations quickens the body, mind and soul to a certain state in a year's time.
The Yogis found that the same result of one year's complete bodily evolution and spiritual change can be brought about by internal methods for energizing and spiritualizing the spine which is extremely sensitive.
This quickening of evolution can be accomplished only if Kriya is practiced correctly, if the body is kept free from diseases and accidents, and the mind from disbelief and error. Normally, the human body, brain, mind and soul undergo a complete change once every eight years, if the individual be progressive. The Scriptures say it requires about a million uninterrupted mundane years of human progressive natural evolution to clarify and sensitize and enlarge the brain, mind and soul capacity so that they can hold and reflect all the knowledge in the Universe.
Ordinarily, the human brain is too limited even to hold all the words of an enlarged Webster Dictionary. Imagine what a highly developed brain is necessary to hold and express all knowledge.
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