Kriya Yoga provides a true experience of religion that cannot be attained just through talking about God. When practicing Kriya Yoga, one opens their spiritual eye and the world drops away as God is experienced directly. Kriya Yoga meditation can bestow more benefits than 24 hours of ordinary prayer by deepening one's stillness and ability to commune with God. Kriya Yoga is described as the highest method of contacting God, bringing great peace and bliss. It allows one to enter heavenly worlds and commune with saints and God through controlling the breath and quieting the eyes, breath and heart.
Kriya Yoga provides a true experience of religion that cannot be attained just through talking about God. When practicing Kriya Yoga, one opens their spiritual eye and the world drops away as God is experienced directly. Kriya Yoga meditation can bestow more benefits than 24 hours of ordinary prayer by deepening one's stillness and ability to commune with God. Kriya Yoga is described as the highest method of contacting God, bringing great peace and bliss. It allows one to enter heavenly worlds and commune with saints and God through controlling the breath and quieting the eyes, breath and heart.
Kriya Yoga provides a true experience of religion that cannot be attained just through talking about God. When practicing Kriya Yoga, one opens their spiritual eye and the world drops away as God is experienced directly. Kriya Yoga meditation can bestow more benefits than 24 hours of ordinary prayer by deepening one's stillness and ability to commune with God. Kriya Yoga is described as the highest method of contacting God, bringing great peace and bliss. It allows one to enter heavenly worlds and commune with saints and God through controlling the breath and quieting the eyes, breath and heart.
Yogananda: Kriya Yoga Gives the True Experiene of !eligion "Your life will reflet spiritual onsiousness if you meditate# $ine the pu%liation of my %ook &Autobiography of a Yogi'( everyone is asking a%out Kriya Yoga# That is my purpose# ) didn*t ome to give theologial a%strations( %ut a tehni+ue where%y those who are sinere an truly know God( not ,ust theori-e a%out .im####The pratie of Kriya gives the true experiene of religion( whih annot %e had %y ,ust talking a%out God# /esus said: 01hy all ye me( 2ord( 2ord( and do not the things whih ) say3* "1hen %y Kriya Yoga ) open my spiritual eye( the whole world drops away from my onsiousness( and God is with me# 4nd why not3 ) am .is hild# $t# )gnatius said( 0God seeks willing hearts that .e may give .is %ounties to them####* That is most %eautiful( and that is what ) %elieve# God seeks willing hearts for the %estowal of .is gifts# .e is willing to give us everything( %ut we are not willing to make the effort to %e reeptive#5 6 Paramahansa Yogananda( Journey to Self-realization
7pen 7neself to the Blessings of God "Prayer with devotion is a wonderful means of opening oneself to the freely flowing %lessings of God( a neessary link of man*s life to the )nfinite $oure of all %enefation# But it takes a long time for prayer to %e effetive when the mind is outwardly roaming# That is why one hour of Kriya Yoga meditation an %estow more effet than twenty8four hours of ordinary prayer# "Those who pratie the tehni+ue of Kriya deeply for even a little while( and sit long in meditation in the resultant stillness( find that the fore of their prayer is dou%led( tre%led( a hundred times more powerful# )f one enters the inner temple of silene and worships %efore the altar of God with prayer and invoation of .is presene( he omes +uikly# 1hen the 2isten to an audio reording of Paramahansa,i*s words on Kriya Yoga onsiousness is withdrawn from the sensory surfae of the %ody and its surroundings and entrali-ed in the ere%rospinal shrines of soul pereption( that is the most effetive time to pray#5 6 Paramahansa Yogananda( The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You Kriya Yoga 6 .ighest 9ethod of God :ontat "Kriya Yoga is the highest method of God ontat# )n my own searh for God ) traveled all over )ndia( and heard wisdom from the lips of a num%er of her greatest masters# ) an therefore vouh for the fat that in $elf8!eali-ation teahings are the highest truths and sientifi tehni+ues given to mankind %y God and the Great 7nes# "The aftereffets of Kriya %ring with them the utmost peae and %liss# The ,oy that omes with Kriya is greater than the ,oys of all pleasura%le physial sensations put together# 0;nattrated to the sensory world( the yogi experienes the ever new ,oy inherent in the $elf# Engaged in divine union of the soul with $pirit( he attains %liss indestruti%le* <Bhagavad Gita =:>?@# From that ,oy experiened in meditation ) reeive the rest of a thousand sleeps# $leep %eomes virtually unneessary to the advaned Kriya Yogi# "1hen %y Kriya Yoga the devotee enters samadhi wherein his eyes( %reath( and heart are +uieted( another world omes into view# Breath( sound( and movement of the eyes %elong to this world# But the yogi who has ontrol of the %reath may enter the heavenly astral and ausal worlds and ommune there with God*s saints( or enter osmi onsiousness and ommune with God# The yogi is not interested in anything else# "1hoever will give less importane to everything else( remem%ering what ) have said( will get to God without fail#5 6 Paramahansa Yogananda( !an"s #ternal $uest
Eradiate Bad 9ental .a%its and Karma "Eah of your ha%its reates a speifi 0groove(* or pathway( in the %rain# These patterns make you %ehave in a ertain way( often against your wish# Your life follows those grooves that you yourself have reated in the %rain# )n that sense you are not a free personA you are more or less a vitim of the ha%its you have formed# Bepending on how set those patterns are( to that degree you are a puppet# But you an neutrali-e the ditates of those %ad ha%its# .ow3 By reating %rain patterns of opposite good ha%its# 4nd you an ompletely erase the grooves of %ad ha%its %y meditation# There is no other way# .owever( you an*t ultivate good ha%its without good ompany and good environment# 4nd you an*t free yourself from %ad ha%its without good ompany and meditation#### "Every time you meditate deeply on God( %enefiial hanges take plae in the patterns of your %rain# $uppose you are a finanial failure or a moral failure or a spiritual failure# Through deep meditation( affirming( 0) and my Father are one(* you will know that you are the hild of God# .old on to that ideal# 9editate until you feel a great ,oy# 1hen ,oy strikes your heart( God has answered your %roadast to .imA .e is responding to your prayers and positive thinking# This is a distint and definite method: "First( meditate upon the thought( 0) and my Father are one(* trying to feel a great peae( and then a great ,oy in your heart# 1hen that ,oy omes( say( 0Father( Thou art with me# ) ommand Thy power within me to auteri-e my %rain ells of wrong ha%its and past seed tendenies#* The power of God in meditation will do it# !id yourself of the limiting onsiousness that you are a man or a womanA know that you are the hild of God# Then mentally affirm and pray to God: 0) ommand my %rain ells to hange( to destroy the grooves of %ad ha%its that have made a puppet out of me# 2ord( %urn them up in Thy divine light#* 4nd when you will pratie the $elf8!eali-ation tehni+ues of meditation( espeially Kriya Yoga( you will atually see that light of God %apti-ing you#5 6 Paramahansa Yogananda( The %i&ine Romance