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  Welcome to Kriya Yoga
Kriya Yoga is a golden opportunity to reach higher states of consciousness and change your life, gaining all-round development of body, mind, and soul.
Kriya Yoga techniques are passed down from guru to disciple, master to aspirant, teacher to student.
Kriya Yoga is not a religion; it is a powerful tool to be used by those of all religions in order to hasten their own spiritual development.
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 Kriya Yoga
The science of Kriya Yoga is that knowledge which, when it is applied to the internals of man, allows him to realize his ever-present unity with God and perceive that whatever he is doing is done only by the power of God, Who is activating his whole system and directing all of his activities.
Kriya Yoga is not a sectarian discipline but a universal one and is adopted to some extent by all sects and religions.
Kriya Yoga is the essence and synthesis of all yogic techniques taught in the world.
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 Center for Spiritual Awareness: Kriya Yoga
In Patanjali's yoga-sutras, a two thousand year old treatise on superconscious meditation, kriya yoga is defined as discipline of mental and sensory impulses, self analysis, profound study of metaphysics (higher realities), meditation, and surrender of ordinary self-consciousness (egoism) in favor of God-realization.
Kriya yoga is a concentrated approach to Self-discovery and spiritual enlightenment: complete awakening to full knowledge of the Infinite and of cosmic processes.
The purpose of kriya yoga practice is to restore the practitioner's awareness to wholeness.
www.csa-davis.org /kriya.html   (275 words)

  
 Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda - Crystal Clarity Publishers
Kriya Yoga is thus "union (yoga) with the Infinite through a certain action or rite." A yogi who faithfully follows its technique is gradually freed from karma or the universal chain of causation.
Kriya Yoga is a simple, psychophysiological method by which the human blood is decarbonized and recharged with oxygen.
Kriya Yoga is referred to by Krishna, India's greatest prophet, in a stanza of the Bhagavad Gita: "Offering inhaling breath into the outgoing breath, and offering the outgoing breath into the inhaling breath, the yogi neutralizes both these breaths; he thus releases the life force from the heart and brings it under his control."
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 Kriya Yoga the original Kriya source : Original Kriya Yoga
This compelling book intertwines the life stories of four advanced spiritual masters of Kriya Yoga with the experiences of a young woman traveller after she arrives in Varanasi, India, and decides to learn some yoga.
You have probably noticed that yoga has become highly commercialised over the past two decades: Hatha Yoga is packaged as a workout, whilst Tantra Yoga is marketed as the answer to increasing sexual prowess.
At a time when many are propagating a changed method of the scientific technique, this book returns to the source and principles of Kriya Yoga.
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 Kriya Yoga lore in the Lahiri Mahasaya family
Kriya Yoga emphasises integration of separative consciousness (generated by unceasing movement of thought) with an awakenedness (that is, a non-elective holistic attention free from mental fragmentations) through actions of perception and not through the activities of conceptualisation.
Kriya Yoga does not tell stories, does not indulge in miracle mongering to keep the seekers amused in poor and paralyzing consolations.
His yearning is to see that human beings live in peace and amity without ache, agony and animosity, without this monstrous culture of killing and being killed in the name of some fragmented flag or phoney fanatic idea in the name of religion.
www.kriyayogalahiri.com /htmluk/kriyayoga-lore.htm   (614 words)

  
 Kriya Yoga - Its Mystery And Performing Art
Kriya Yoga is a novel science comprising of all the best techniques available in different traditional oriental systems of yoga for control of the innate breathing exercise or Pranayama.
Yoga – in its totality – prepares the mind as well as the body for the ultimate goal of life – association and assimilation of the individual consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness.
Kriya Yoga is mentioned in the ancient renowned philosophy of the great sage Patanjali, as a mean for communication with the Absolute by way of certain significant practices – intensely secret.
www.kriyayogabook.org   (561 words)

  
 Kriya Yoga
Kriya Yoga is a complete system covering a wide range of techniques, including mantras and techniques of meditation for control of the life-force, bringing calmness and control of both body and mind.
Kriya Yoga is said to be a combination of the more useful Yoga techniques.
Kriya pranayama is not as much about increasing the time of retention of breath but to magnetize the spine and direct life-force to the brain with the effect to refine the brain and nervous system.
www.aaafengshuiandyoga.com /yoga/Yoga-Kriya.htm   (551 words)

  
 Kriya Yoga - Learn The Secrets To Kriya Yoga
The fundamental belief of Kriya Yoga is that all of us are miniature version of the whole cosmos, a microcosm or an evolution of a new world within the microcosmic world.
Yoga on the other hand is the conjoining of these correspondences between microcosms and macrocosms.
It is also believed in Kriya yoga that that by enlightening the three qualities of light, vibration and sound simultaneously with proper concentration, posture and breathing through application of a series of techniques, a Kriya yoga disciple is able to penetrate the deepest levels of the unconscious mind.
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  Yoga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yoga, meaning union in Sanskrit, is a family of ancient spiritual practices, and also a school of spiritual thought that originated in India, where it remains a vibrant living tradition and is seen as a means to enlightenment.
Yoga as a means to enlightenment is central to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and has influenced other religious and spiritual practices throughout the world.
Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras presents the goal of yoga as 'the cessation of mental fluctuations' (cittavrtti nirodha), an achievement which gives rise to the possibility of stable meditation and thus deeper states of absorption (dhyana or samadhi).
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 Kriya Yoga @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kriya Yoga is a very specific system of Yoga that was revived in modern times by Lahiri Mahasaya.
Kriya Yoga Institute, founded by Paramahamsa Hariharananda, a direct disciple of Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri.
Kriya Yoga Foundation (various practice groups in most European countries, Russia and India), founded by Swami Shankarananda Giri, a direct disciple of Swami Narayana Giri (Prabhujee) who in turn was one of the closest disciples of Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri.
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KRIYA YOGA Philosophy and Lifestyle Practices The Sanskrit word kriya means "action." Yoga can mean the practice of procedures to facilitate overall well-being and spiritual growth, or it can mean...
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 Kriya Yoga - Mandala Yoga Ashram
Hatha Yoga was, in fact, developed and systematised between the 11th and 15th centuries to meet the changing human needs of the time whereas Kriya Yoga is much older.
The practices of Kriya Yoga were never put in writing in their entirety until some twenty years ago, when the Bihar School of Yoga published an encyclopaedic textbook on the subject, entitled "A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya".
Kriya Yoga is a method of alchemy - transmuting base metal into gold: the gross, unrefined state of the individual into its pure and radiant state.
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 What is Kriya
Kriya yoga teaches man that God is to be discovered in his own body first, concentrating his gaze on the point between his eye-brows.
Of course, Kriya yoga is "Sahaja" (meaning literally ‘that which originates at our very birth’) also in the primary sense that it is a process where we have to take recourse to the regulation of breath, the process of inhalation and exhalation which is co-equal with the very being of man.
Through the practice of kriya yoga sãdhanã received from the Guru, the etheric body and the chakras are purified and the prana is stilled.
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 kriya yoga
Kriya Yoga is a complete system covering a wide range of techniques, including mantras and techniques of meditation for control of the life-force, bringing calmness and control of both body and mind.
Kriya Yoga is said to be a combination of the more useful Yoga techniques.
Kriya pranayama is not as much about increasing the time of retention of breath but to magnetize the spine and direct life-force to the brain with the effect to refine the brain and nervous system.
www.self-realization.com /articles/yoga/kriya_yoga.htm   (568 words)

  
 Kriya Yoga : What is Kriya Yoga, also called Chauturanga Yoga
Kriya Yoga is a technique, taught directly by the master to the disciple through a purification process.
Kriya Yoga is an integral Yoga, a union of Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga and Bhakti Yoga.
Kriya Yoga is a scientific technique of meditation, which brings all-round development to a person.
www.sanatansociety.org /yoga_and_meditation/kriya_yoga.htm   (640 words)

  
 Kriya Yoga | Hamsa Yoga
Kundalini Kriya Yoga pranayama arrests bodily decay connected with apana, manifest in the exhaling breath, by fresh inhalations of life-force (Prana) distilled from the inhaling breath.
The body of the Kriya Yogi is recharged with extra energy distilled from the breath and energized by the tremendous dynamo of energy generated in the spine, the decay of body tissues decreases.
In Kriya Yoga, when you inhale and exhale continuously, oxygen is quickly converted into life energy that recharges the entire body, especially the blood and the lungs with vital sustenance.
www.hamsa-yoga.org /kriya-yoga   (2288 words)

  
 Kriya Yoga Institute - Lineage of Gurus
The original authentic Kriya Yoga of Babaji, Yogiraj Lahiri Baba, and Shriyukteshwarji was brought to the West in this century by Paramahamsa Hariharananda.
In ancient times, Kriya Yoga was revealed by God to Vivaswan, the first King of the solar dynasty in ancient India.
A disciple of Shriyukteshwarji, he is widely known as the author of “Autobiography of a Yogi” and the first Kriya Yoga master to come to the West in 1920.
www.kriya.org /gurus-acharyas/kriya-yoga-lineage.htm   (511 words)

  
 Kriya Yoga Info
Kriya Pranayama, in its initial phase, is essentially the movement of Prana (not in the global sense, but as the particular form or energy present in the upper part of the trunk – lungs and heart) into Apana and the movement of Apana into Prana.
Some Kriya teachers affirm that the condition for entering the last and the highest Kriya stage is that the vision of the spiritual eye has become constant; others identify it with the condition in which the energy is perfectly calm at the base of the spine.
In Kriya Yoga, at least for those living in the west and not used to assuming it since infancy, it is much wiser, healthier and comfortable to practice either the Half lotus or the Siddhasana position.
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 Living Yoga Institute of Bothell, Seattle & Lynnwood
“Kriya Yoga is a simple, psychophysiological method by which the human blood is decarbonized and recharged with oxygen.” So writes Paramhansa Yogananda in his famous Autobiography of a Yogi.
The Kriya Yoga prepaid study curriculum is designed for those who feel that the practice of Kriya Yoga and discipleship to Paramhansa Yogananda and the line of Self-realization gurus is their spiritual path.
Kriya Yoga Preparation Intensive – Segment 1: Eight Wednesdays in January and February or in May and June (both series at Ananda Community in Lynnwood).
www.instituteoflivingyoga.org /index.php?page=kriya-yoga   (389 words)

  
 Kriya Yoga Book Contents
From the practical experiences of yoga practice this may be said that when the tongue is reposed on the aforesaid position, it experiences some special types of sensations and receive some peculiar types of secretions.
The first kriya is also known as the bhutasuddhi kriya or the practice of corporeal purification or the dhyaner kriya the practice for meditation.
And it is the characteristic of the kriya of thokkar (pecking) as the kriya of dharana.
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 Kriya Yoga - Yoga Basics
Kriya Yoga is a systematic approach designed my Mahavatar Kriya Babaji to transform oneself to merge in universal bliss.
Initial stages of yoga prepares one to uproot the karma and its effects whether it is good or bad and after that it takes one to higher levels of consciousness and finally helps one to merge in ultimate bliss.
On hearing the word yoga, in most of the peoples mind comes the idea of asanas, different postures, etc. Asanas are the subset of yoga to tone body for higher yoga kriyas.
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 Kriya Yoga Lineage of Masters
One of the great Kriya Yoga Master's and world teacher's, he attained the pulseless, breathless state of meditation known as nirvikalpa samadhi - the highest attainment of a dedicated Yogi.
A disciple and the successor of Paramahamsa Hariharananda, he is an advanced yogi, teacher and proponent of Kriya Yoga, a path of self-realization and a scientific technique of concentration, meditation and breath control.
Kriya Yoga is an ancient powerful system of meditation, which promises perfect health, peace of mind and a stress-free life.
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 KRIYA YOGA
KRIYA (cleansing, purifying) yoga is the term Patanjali uses in his classical yoga system outlined in the Yoga Sutras.
This Kriya Yoga encompasses all of the major branches of yoga and can be applied to any of the forms popular today.
TAPAS is the burning desire for yoga as well as the heat and purification that results from yoga practice, cleansing impurities of body and mind.
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 What is Kriya Yoga
Kriya Yoga is a method to attain the union of breath and Soul in each inhalation and exhalation.
The practice of Kriya Yoga is based on breath, the brain and the spinal cord.
This is why we during the practice of Kriya Yoga bend the spine forward allowing the magnetic life force to flow in the spinal cord.
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 Kriya Yoga
The kriyas, as taught by Satyananda Yoga, are one of only two systems of Kriya Yoga recognized the world over, the other being that of Paramahamsa Yogananda.
Kriya also refers to a type of practical or preliminary practice leading to total union, the final result of practice.
The most authoritative magna opus on the subject of Kriya Yoga today is A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga & Kriya, its companion volume is Kundalini Tantra.
www.yogavision.net /yv/satyoga/kriyayoga.htm   (259 words)

  
 Original Kriya Yoga : Original Kriya Yoga
The significance of Footsteps to Freedom: Four Spiritual Masters of Kriya Yoga and a Beginner cannot be over-emphasised, and particularly its role to prevent the scientific, and therefore unchangeable, method of Kriya Yoga from becoming lost to mankind once more.
Kriya Yoga reached the West in the 1920s with the publication of Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.
As a result, Lahiri Mahasaya soon became a household name in yoga circles as the 'father of Kriya Yoga', whilst organisations and ashrams, societies and self-elected gurus sprang up world-wide, all purporting to teach the original method.
www.kriyasource.com /originalkriyayoga   (587 words)

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