Kriya Yoga Pranayama Meditation

Kriya yoga is an ancient spiritual science many many thousands of years old, dating back to the earliest ages of human civilization, so over 10,000 years old. It was originally known to the ancient rishis (enlightened person, a Sage or a Seer) of India who attained God realisation through direct inner experience rather than through philosophical speculation. It was preserved thousands of years ago when the last golden age ended as humanity entered the unenlightened age or dark ages, and brought back into modern day in the late 19th century by the deathless Avatar Master Babaji and given to his disciple who then in turn passed it on to his flock of students who some become great masters. Krishna and Jesus both taught this same universal science expressed in different languages. Krishna spoke of yoga and Jesus spoke of the kingdom of god within, both referring to the same inner realisation, the direct experience of God through control of the life force and inner communion. Krishna gave this technique of yoga to his disciple Arjuna, and Jesus taught his disciples the art of withdrawing life force and consciousness from the senses to commune with the father within. Jesus spent his late teens and 20’s in India, Nepal and Tibet learning from various masters to bring back the teachings as he developed the christ consciousness within him, and walked the silk route back to the middle east. Therefore the original christianity of Jesus and the original yoga of Krishna are identical, both teach the way using this ancient spiritual science to commune with the infinite through direct inner experience.

Kriya yoga is the scientific and spiritual discipline which accelerates spiritual evolution through meditation, advanced breath control (pranayama), devotion, and building the foundations of moral right living!

Kriya in Sanskrit, the ancient eastern language literally means “action” or “to act” and Yoga means the balance of the mind, body and spirit. So through a specific yogic action which is a scientific technique to eventually fully realise yourself, you accelerate your human evolution by directing life energy or (prana) consciously. Thus bringing peace, harmony, and a higher conscious state of awareness to the mind, body and spirit. This is what we call the airplane route to the divine, the direct route through the scientific method of bringing life force energy upon the spinal centres, to quicken your spiritual unfoldment.

Through the practice of Kriya Yoga we are born again, being baptised in spirit! It is not a religion, but a universal method to attain union with the divine, it is practical and experiential, rather than theoretical or dogmatic!

The purpose of this spiritual discipline is to become self realised, which means you experientially realise you are part of the great self, God, spirit, divine mother/father, and you experience it in deep meditation. This enables you to become free in this life from the limiting body and ego mind, thus you become fully awakened in the divine consciousness, or another term used is enlightened. Even if you do not attain enlightenment in this life which the vast majority will not, this mediation practice brings you more peace and harmony, more conscious awareness, more wisdom, better health, more abundance, more joy and happiness, more creativity, and a deeper understanding of who you are and why you are here, and helps to dissolve your karma in this lifetime.

The term being born again, really means being baptised in spirit, and every time you go into deep meditation like Kriya you are born again, as in you are freed a little more from the delusion of material existence. In some mainstream religions it is a practical thing, being baptised by holy water etc, this is just symbolic of the true meaning of going within into the kingdom of God. In the Christian Bible St John says “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”. Jesus used a similar technique to Kriya meditation, and taught his disciples also, although you will not find this specifically spelt out to you in any mainstream religious texts. Krishna who lived a few thousand years before Jesus in India taught this also to his chief disciple Arjuna. In India the higher castes are called twice born, which refers to the second birth, or receiving higher states of consciousness located in the spine, a baptism by spirit, the true initiation. So to be born again means to awaken in spirit. The man and woman, the child of God is born once into the flesh and again into the spirit through divine meditation.

There is a true science to this practice, learning to harness prana (life force cosmic energy) to make the link between body and consciousness. Cosmic energy is the source of all living things and the creation of planets and stars, and all living organisms, neutrons, protons, electrons which make up atoms etc. The mind follows the breath, so by controlling the breath, one can control the mind. You soul is seeking an experience of God that is tangible, therefore this technique will give you the mathematical results, depending on how deeply and how often you practice, coupled with devotion. This practice then draws the prana life force energy inwards and upwards from the base of the spine, often depicted like a serpent, and upwards through the main spiritual centres (or chakras) in the spine to the brain, to eventually go into a superconscious state. This will re -unite our limited human consciousness with the unlimited or cosmic consciousness of God, spirit, Brahmin, Atman, Jehovah, Allah, the divine mother/father, the absolute, nirvana, Ram, source, oneness, etc etc, as there are thousands of names for the source of all creation.

One Kriya pranayama done correctly brings the same amount of spiritual evolution as one year of natural spiritual development. Each time you practice Kriya correctly your entire system is being divinely changed, your brain power and mental receptiveness are expanding, as the neuroplasticity of the brain becomes re-wired over time. The masters of India have given us here everything we need to reach the supreme goal of life! The time limitation of ordinary human evolution is overcome by this Kriya practice. To attain ultimate wisdom and to be self realised ordinary takes about 1 million years of normal disease-less evolution, without the aid of advanced spiritual techniques according to the great ancient Rishis of India. However this can be attained in one lifetime through deep devotion and the right practice of Kriya. The human brain must be perfected sufficiently to be able to reach these higher levels of spiritual perception which Kriya can do, as most other meditative methods cannot!

Benefits

1, Simple living

You want to live more simply, becoming less attached to material wants and desires to make you feel more secure. You become more of the conscious observer of the ego minds constant chatter, and living in past regrets or future hopes and desires. You choose your relationships both intimate and friendships more carefully that are more wholesome and giving! You connect to nature in a deeper way, and spend more free time being nourished by natures sheer beauty and diversity, and where you can reflect within the openness and spaciousness. Eating a more simple diet, moving away from dense heavy food, and consuming more lighter and nutritious food and drinks to support your spiritual journey as you expand your consciousness and heighten your vibration.

You become more mindful of what you are watching and taking on board and not over stimulating your nervous system with online material, which induces fear, anger, lust, depression etc, as this can really take us down a rabbit hole. You become aware that the overuse of technology becomes addictive and is used by the ego mind to suppress our consciousness as it wants to survive and thinks it is protecting us from the unknown. Therefore you create a balance and become mindful when online or in the social media arena in that you stay in awareness and observe when it is becoming habit forming.

You become more aware that you require a more harmonious work life balance, not separating your work life from your spiritual life, becoming more the conscious observer within your career, so that you have a balance that does not effect your inner happiness and which can create dis-harmony. You see that by chasing after material success how it effects your spiritual life which is self defeating, which creates anxiety and stress, and your spiritual development can suffer. Now you bring the effects of your meditation into your daily duties, carrying that calm and higher awareness into all your activities including work.

2, High thinking

As the Buddha said “what you think you become”. Therefore its important to observe our thoughts, which you are able to do more with Kriya so you do not become distracted by the constant mind chatter, that takes you into the past of regrets and anger, and into the future of fulfilling unmet desires, anxiety, fear etc.

Kriya practice supports you to be more able to be within higher states of consciousness throughout your day, being more expansive and rooted in truth, which uplifts you out of the ego minds worry and anxiety. You also use your heightened discriminative reasoning and intelligence to determine what is real, as in your innate spiritual nature and what is false or unreal, the delusive nature of this reality. This contemplation starts to free you of what you thought you were, and what you really are!

You also gravitate more to want to study and read more spiritual uplifting material to inspire you, as a means of a road map for the conscious path we are now travelling, to learn from those that have mastered life, a blueprint to utilise, so we can learn and navigate our way when we feel we temporary become lost! What also happens is you yearn to associate with other spiritually minded souls to uplift you and associate with, and forge new conscious friendships, where you are not judged and you can speak your truth and be heard.

As you venture deeper into Kriya and open your heart and the eye of perception you really start to address more deeply those burning questions in your soul, Who am I?, Where do I come from?, What is God?, What is real and what is not? Through Kriya practice these questions become more revealed through the opening up of the channel of your intuition over time, or what I call the language of God, as it comes through the stillness within deep and concentrated mediation practice.

3, Mediation for self realisation

As you start Kriya, the yearning to venture deeper and deeper in meditation becomes stronger, as this becomes your core spiritual practice. This will if practised regularly will lead you to levels of deep peace, inner guidance, healing on a mind, body and spiritual level, where you start to forge a union with the divine essence within you, leading to greater levels of presence, wisdom, intuition, self love, compassion, humility, joy and happiness.

Routine in life is vital as symbolically shown to us by God, as the sun rises every morning and sets every evening, so forming a routine for Kriya meditation in your life morning and evening. It does not matter initially for how long, as long as you get into a routine and over time you expand it slowly. This then allows the over thinking of the busy mind which has an inexhaustible amount of energy to slowly over time to die down, leading to longer moments of inner stillness where you are able to just be in a deep level of peace and in an expanded state of consciousness, and feel from your heart centre divine love like a flower opening up to the sun, this is where intuition and inner wisdom rises to the surface within you, re awakening your true divine nature that has been there all along! Therefore you are not trying to search for it outside of yourself to bring it into you, its just uncovering what has been buried by desires, attachments and ignorance.

Kriya will also lead you to be less reactive, and more the conscious observer, which is your true innate state of being. This allows you to watch your trigger points in life where normally you would go into fight or flight, tempers and anger, and you learn to observe the thoughts before they bring up the attached emotions, which is where we usually get ourselves into trouble. You as the conscious observer learn to just watch and observe the triggers from your awareness, however its not easy and it takes time, but with continued devotion your consciousness becomes more elevated, and you bring self compassion and the light of awareness to dissolve these thought forms and emotions, with some humour!

What also happens you start to learn to master the breath, pranayama means control of the breath and life force energy, and what happens over time is you learn to quieten the breath right down to what is called a breathless state, total stillness within the body and mind. This Kriya technique re-awakens the energy centres (or chakras) within your spine. As a consequence of this your devotion will deepen to the divine, and you will feel the presence of God within you more as a living reality that you carry around with you wherever you go, a portable paradise within your heart.

Learning to serve mankind

When we practice with devotion Kriya, or other profound devotional practices, the natural tendency as we are divine souls, is to be of service to our fellow travellers, our brothers and sisters on this planet. We become clearer more open conduits for God’s grace, intelligence and wisdom to flow through us, becoming beacons of light in the world, a lighthouse for others to safely navigate by within their awakening process. This is part of living a true spiritual life, being selfless within the world through the action of love, compassion and humility.

We can then help to become less subservient to our ego minds by being of service, as we recognise more the light of God within all beings, which in turn expands further our consciousness. Offering love in service is the greatest purification for our souls evolution, which creates more happiness and a sense of purpose within the world, becoming an instrument of peace!

When you are in service to others you gradually let go of the need for validation and recognition, you just give from a place of love from your heart, nothing is needed or wanted back, all actions are from our devotional hearts within our chosen work, charitable work and field of profession. This leads us to be mindful to practice expressing love and compassion within your actions, through thought and speech.

When you practice Kriya and see and feel the benefits as outlined within these writings, you then become more rooted in spiritual truth, more emotionally balanced, more energetically vibrant, more peaceful in detachment from desires, and you embrace more joy and more love with the divine within you. Thus the propensity to give and be of service to the world, it just becomes very natural for you, in your own unique way.

Therefore you become both a mystic and a practical person, a balanced spiritual powerhouse, inwardly more absorbed with the divine, outwardly more dynamic, kind and creative. You then bring more divine light into the world through your life, and become an inspiration to others to do likewise!

This is quite timely, as we are witnessing more chaos on our planet, as we enter a higher age of consciousness, as the current old global hierarchy try to hold on to their control for dear life, more chaos will ensue. We must learn from our practice to be in the eye of the storm, and to be of service to those that become frightened and lost, of great change and upheaval. We must become beacons of light in the world, shining our light for our fellow souls to navigate their way across the stormy seas of their ego minds, and assist them to come ashore into their divine hearts, and their true divine nature, sons and daughters of God, nothing less then this!