There is divine power in every human being. Kriya Yoga is the shortest, quickest and most scientific way to be one with the almighty
Having created everything, God has entered into the creation. So all are the children of God. In the Upanishads, it is written: srunvantu sarve amritasya putraah “Hearken thou, O sons of immortal bliss”. Human beings are immortal sons of God. They have descended from him. They have to return to their original state i.e. they have to realise God, to be one with him. Only then all their aspirations will be fulfilled and they will be truly happy. They will get peace, bliss and divine happiness. This is possible by the sincere and regular practice of Kriya Yoga.
The supreme mystery of Kriya Yoga came to man with his creation. In ancient times, thousands of years ago, in Satya Yuga, the era of truth, there were no Rama, Krishna, Kali, Durga etc. Even the Vedas, Bible, Koran were not there. But there were many powerful monks and rishis who had marvelous miracles and truth in them. At that time people used to practise this ancient Kriya Yoga technique. By the special breathing technique of Kriya Yoga, they used to get peace, bliss and calmness throughout the day and night. Only by breath control they were getting self-control, since breath mastery is self-mastery, breathless stage is a deathless stage.
Now, though almost all the people are religious, they are busy only with religious play. Many people go on chanting mantras and follow various puja techniques. In spite of all these, they are unable to calm down their restlessness and remove selfishness, cruelty and viciousness. So, they are not getting any benefit by such religious practices.
For example, if a person drinks nectar in a poison pot, what will be the result? Similarly, though people are religious, going from one guru to another doesn’t help them because they have not been able to overcome their negative traits. Hence, they are unable to bring any spiritual improvement in themselves. One has to go to a realised guru, who has unveiled nature’s splendour and the veils of all religions, and reached the divine goal. Such a guru can infuse the divine power into a disciple in a short time.
There are many ways to reach the divine goal, but Kriya Yoga is the shortest, quickest and most scientific way. It is the common highway of all religions. It is the essence of all faiths. But Kriya Yoga is neither a religion nor is it sectarian. There are four major techniques in Kriya Yoga. They are simple easy and short. No hardship is faced in practising them. You are not to hold your breath with your head down and leg stretched in the air. Generally when a person sits for puja or meditation he experiences restlessness. Thoughts, worries and anxieties cross his mind. So, his puja or meditation becomes useless. This difficulty can be easily overcome by the practice of the first technique of Kriya Yoga. By the practice of this technique you forget your ego and body sense and get extreme super-consciousness and cosmic consciousness. You can immediately change your life force into an radiant all-accomplishing divine force which in turn, hastens your physical, mental and intellectual upliftment. Your brain will be fertile, your memory will be sharp, and you will feel the divine change. The second technique is a panacea for all diseases. It cures many diseases. It gives you a healthy and lustrous body. It retards the ageing process. By the third technique you can offer your whole system to God. Your hands are not your hands.
They are the hands of God. God works through your hands. Your heart is not your heart, it belongs to God. God is pulling breath into you, so that your whole system is acting. You have appetite because you are alive. A dead man has no appetite.
We are not eating food; it is God who is eating through us. We are not earning money; it is God who is doing so. We must offer everything we have to God, and realise that our system is actually the system of God.
We are usually not able to perceive this because of some defects. We have two nostrils. So long as the breath will not come with equal pressure from both the nostrils, our spiritual field will not be cultivated. We have to cultivate our own spiritual field, which is our own body.
All our anger, pride and insincerity centres are in the right lobe (cerebrum right side of brain), and our speech centre is on the left side of the brain. Also we have another part called pons. Above and behind pons is the mid-brain; where the aggregated balance sheets of our lives are stored. Good and bad thoughts are also stored here. So, in a moment we can become bewildered and furious. By the practice of Kriya Yoga, our thoughts become balanced.
By the help of the fourth technique we will be able to feel that it is only the power of God that is activating us. It will bestow upon us extreme calmness. It is when we experience this calmness, that we hear the mantras. Anybody, who has been initiated in the ‘Mantra’ of Rama, need not chant Rama, Rama, Rama. His indwelling self is Rama. In Kriya Yoga, he can automatically hear the Rama mantra ... as if coming from a distance. Any other person worshipping Shiva, Kali, or Durga need not chant. He can automatically hear the divine sound. He will even feel the divine vibrations in his whole body and also see the divine light. He will feel the power of God rising up to infinity.
Also, in his fontanelle he will feel the sensation of floating, swaying and rocking. With help of this, all his negative and bad qualities will disappear; he will feel that the power of God is always with him.
In the Bible, it is written: “if your eyes do not seek God you should pluck them out. Your mouth is not made for bread only, but the word that proceeds from your mouth is the talk of God”. In Kenopanishad, the same thing is written: “yad vacha anavyuditem yena vagvyutuate tadeva Brahmetwam viddhi nedam yadidam upasate” or ‘What speech cannot reveal but which reveals the speech know that alone is God’. “Yanmanasaa ne mennte yenhurnano matam tadeva Brahmatwam viddhi nedam yadidem upasate” or ‘What mind cannot comprehend, but what cognises mind, know that alone is God.’
Once more, I emphasise the most important thing. It is only the power of God, which is pulling the breath from the seventh junction of every being. So, we are alive and doing so many things. We are the children of God. The marvellous power of God exists in each one of us. In the eighth chapter, tenth verse of the Bhagavad Gita it is said: “bhruvor madhye pranam avesya samyak sa tam param purusam upaiti divyam” or ‘If one can fix the prana shakti, with the help of breath, at the mid point of the eyebrows (pituitary), he can perceive the self effulgent divine self.’
The scriptures say: Yabannaiva pravisati charnmaruto madhyamarge Yabad bindurnabhavati drldhah pranavaata prabandhat. Yabaddyaane sahajasadrisa jaayate naiva tattwam taabat gyaanam vadati tadidam dambha mithyapralap or ‘So long as your mind does not calmly seek Him there, your spiritual achievement is completely nil’.
Meditation means freedom for the mind from worldly objects. You are in knowledge, consciousness and super consciousness. In the Bible it is written: “Be still and know that you are God”. By the practice of Kriya Yoga meditation you can still your mind and feel the living presence of God.
God is sweet, kind and loving; If anybody practises this technique for five to ten minutes every day, he will acquire all these qualities.
—(Prajnana Mission is celebrating the birth centenary year of Paramahamsa Hariharananda this year. The article is excerpted from a talk delivered by him in 1986)
Having created everything, God has entered into the creation. So all are the children of God. In the Upanishads, it is written: srunvantu sarve amritasya putraah “Hearken thou, O sons of immortal bliss”. Human beings are immortal sons of God. They have descended from him. They have to return to their original state i.e. they have to realise God, to be one with him. Only then all their aspirations will be fulfilled and they will be truly happy. They will get peace, bliss and divine happiness. This is possible by the sincere and regular practice of Kriya Yoga.
The supreme mystery of Kriya Yoga came to man with his creation. In ancient times, thousands of years ago, in Satya Yuga, the era of truth, there were no Rama, Krishna, Kali, Durga etc. Even the Vedas, Bible, Koran were not there. But there were many powerful monks and rishis who had marvelous miracles and truth in them. At that time people used to practise this ancient Kriya Yoga technique. By the special breathing technique of Kriya Yoga, they used to get peace, bliss and calmness throughout the day and night. Only by breath control they were getting self-control, since breath mastery is self-mastery, breathless stage is a deathless stage.
Now, though almost all the people are religious, they are busy only with religious play. Many people go on chanting mantras and follow various puja techniques. In spite of all these, they are unable to calm down their restlessness and remove selfishness, cruelty and viciousness. So, they are not getting any benefit by such religious practices.
For example, if a person drinks nectar in a poison pot, what will be the result? Similarly, though people are religious, going from one guru to another doesn’t help them because they have not been able to overcome their negative traits. Hence, they are unable to bring any spiritual improvement in themselves. One has to go to a realised guru, who has unveiled nature’s splendour and the veils of all religions, and reached the divine goal. Such a guru can infuse the divine power into a disciple in a short time.
There are many ways to reach the divine goal, but Kriya Yoga is the shortest, quickest and most scientific way. It is the common highway of all religions. It is the essence of all faiths. But Kriya Yoga is neither a religion nor is it sectarian. There are four major techniques in Kriya Yoga. They are simple easy and short. No hardship is faced in practising them. You are not to hold your breath with your head down and leg stretched in the air. Generally when a person sits for puja or meditation he experiences restlessness. Thoughts, worries and anxieties cross his mind. So, his puja or meditation becomes useless. This difficulty can be easily overcome by the practice of the first technique of Kriya Yoga. By the practice of this technique you forget your ego and body sense and get extreme super-consciousness and cosmic consciousness. You can immediately change your life force into an radiant all-accomplishing divine force which in turn, hastens your physical, mental and intellectual upliftment. Your brain will be fertile, your memory will be sharp, and you will feel the divine change. The second technique is a panacea for all diseases. It cures many diseases. It gives you a healthy and lustrous body. It retards the ageing process. By the third technique you can offer your whole system to God. Your hands are not your hands.
They are the hands of God. God works through your hands. Your heart is not your heart, it belongs to God. God is pulling breath into you, so that your whole system is acting. You have appetite because you are alive. A dead man has no appetite.
We are not eating food; it is God who is eating through us. We are not earning money; it is God who is doing so. We must offer everything we have to God, and realise that our system is actually the system of God.
We are usually not able to perceive this because of some defects. We have two nostrils. So long as the breath will not come with equal pressure from both the nostrils, our spiritual field will not be cultivated. We have to cultivate our own spiritual field, which is our own body.
All our anger, pride and insincerity centres are in the right lobe (cerebrum right side of brain), and our speech centre is on the left side of the brain. Also we have another part called pons. Above and behind pons is the mid-brain; where the aggregated balance sheets of our lives are stored. Good and bad thoughts are also stored here. So, in a moment we can become bewildered and furious. By the practice of Kriya Yoga, our thoughts become balanced.
By the help of the fourth technique we will be able to feel that it is only the power of God that is activating us. It will bestow upon us extreme calmness. It is when we experience this calmness, that we hear the mantras. Anybody, who has been initiated in the ‘Mantra’ of Rama, need not chant Rama, Rama, Rama. His indwelling self is Rama. In Kriya Yoga, he can automatically hear the Rama mantra ... as if coming from a distance. Any other person worshipping Shiva, Kali, or Durga need not chant. He can automatically hear the divine sound. He will even feel the divine vibrations in his whole body and also see the divine light. He will feel the power of God rising up to infinity.
Also, in his fontanelle he will feel the sensation of floating, swaying and rocking. With help of this, all his negative and bad qualities will disappear; he will feel that the power of God is always with him.
In the Bible, it is written: “if your eyes do not seek God you should pluck them out. Your mouth is not made for bread only, but the word that proceeds from your mouth is the talk of God”. In Kenopanishad, the same thing is written: “yad vacha anavyuditem yena vagvyutuate tadeva Brahmetwam viddhi nedam yadidam upasate” or ‘What speech cannot reveal but which reveals the speech know that alone is God’. “Yanmanasaa ne mennte yenhurnano matam tadeva Brahmatwam viddhi nedam yadidem upasate” or ‘What mind cannot comprehend, but what cognises mind, know that alone is God.’
Once more, I emphasise the most important thing. It is only the power of God, which is pulling the breath from the seventh junction of every being. So, we are alive and doing so many things. We are the children of God. The marvellous power of God exists in each one of us. In the eighth chapter, tenth verse of the Bhagavad Gita it is said: “bhruvor madhye pranam avesya samyak sa tam param purusam upaiti divyam” or ‘If one can fix the prana shakti, with the help of breath, at the mid point of the eyebrows (pituitary), he can perceive the self effulgent divine self.’
The scriptures say: Yabannaiva pravisati charnmaruto madhyamarge Yabad bindurnabhavati drldhah pranavaata prabandhat. Yabaddyaane sahajasadrisa jaayate naiva tattwam taabat gyaanam vadati tadidam dambha mithyapralap or ‘So long as your mind does not calmly seek Him there, your spiritual achievement is completely nil’.
Meditation means freedom for the mind from worldly objects. You are in knowledge, consciousness and super consciousness. In the Bible it is written: “Be still and know that you are God”. By the practice of Kriya Yoga meditation you can still your mind and feel the living presence of God.
God is sweet, kind and loving; If anybody practises this technique for five to ten minutes every day, he will acquire all these qualities.
—(Prajnana Mission is celebrating the birth centenary year of Paramahamsa Hariharananda this year. The article is excerpted from a talk delivered by him in 1986)