Nothing has spread so quickly in the last half century as yoga. This interest must have been initially inspired by the publication of the Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda both in India and the United States. It is the story of a young boy who was inspired to become a renunciant, to follow the spiritual path.

Eventually being initiated into Kriya Yoga discipline, he went to the United States where he gave a lecture and introduced Kriya Yoga. In the next issue of Bindu the subject of Kriya Yoga continues, with some of the following subjects: Where does Kriya Yoga come from? The use of Kriya Yoga from the Indian middle ages up to our days.

Kriya Yoga is described by its practitioners as the ancient Yoga system revived in modern times by Mahavatar Babaji through his disciple Lahiri Mahasaya, c 1861, and brought into widespread public awareness through Paramhansa Yogananda’s book Autobiography of a Yogi. Yogananda, a disciple of Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri who was himself a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya, then brought Kriya Yoga to the United States and Europe during the 20th century.

Yogananda states that liberation can be achieved by pranayama, which is disjoining the course of inspiration and expiration. According to the Hindu scriptures, humans require a million years of regular evolution in order to perfect his brain to express cosmic consciousness. The Kriya yoga helps to achieve this state in one lifespan. Yoga means union with infinity.

Kriya Yoga means union with infinity through certain actions and this technique will free the yogi from karma. The Kriya yoga is a system consisting of yogic techniques that accelerate spiritual development and bring on a deep state of serenity and ultimately, communion with God and nature. Learning Kriya Yoga can help to maintain your physical health as well as helping your spiritual growth.

Kriya yoga, which covers a broad spectrum of knowledge including cosmology and psychology, is presented with discernment and clarity. This work stands out in a class by itself.

The Danish Yogi, Swami Janakananda Saraswati in his Yoga School’s journal Bindu No:5 has stated that according to Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Kriya Yoga today comes from a group of Swamis who have kept it secret, and used it from generation to generation. A tradition which emanates through Mahasiddha Babaji, and Adi Nath Shiva.

Paramahamsa Satyananda with cosmic understanding then decided to begin the propagation of Tantric Kriya Yoga initiating disciples and students who he felt ready for the ultimate Yogic Sadhana. We do not really know who the founder of Kriya Yoga is. From ancient times there has been a tradition of experienced people who attanined inner illumination and who transformed their entire material life into higher consciousness. It is these people who maintained an unbroken continuity of this tradition of Kriya Yoga, which has come down to us today.

I practised a mantra, a very great quantity, you know, just as you have great quantities of money, twenty four million times and at the same time practised karma yoga, day and night, like a bull, like a donkey.

Swami Sivananda received initiation into Kriya Yoga from Babaji, but he did not teach these techniques to anyone himself. Initiation is not a ritual. Initiation is transmission and transference of the finer forces between the guru and disciple, and that is always how this relationship between guru and disciple has existed. This is precisely the relationship between those who learn Kriya Yoga and myself.

At Vishuddhi Chakra a fundamental cleansing takes place, physically and psychically - with certain kriyas in Kriya Yoga one can impede the decaying process of the body and maintain a greater vitality, one can speak about a transformation. One of the most secret and advanced methods for such a transforming insight is called Kriya Yoga.

What is Kriya Yoga? The balance between the inner and the outer life.

Devote your life to God and serving Him. That is the way to freedom, beauty and balance in every aspect of life. This is the greatest secret of Kriya Yoga and all spirituality as well. I am a married man and Kriya Yoga disciple of Sri Kriya Babaji Maharaj, Sri Yogi Spandan Paramahamsa and Sri Siddha Thirumularji.

The Kriya yogi directs his life energy to orbit up and down, around the six spinal centers, which are the medullar, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral and coccygeal plexus. These six centers correspond to the twelve signs of the zodiac. All human beings are affected by an inner and an outer universe and these push them forward on their natural path.

One thousand Kriya practiced in eight hours gives the yogi the equivalent of one thousand years of natural evolution in one year and thus in three years the yogi can reach the result that naturally comes after a million years. This can only be done by deeply developed and dedicated yogis who have prepared themselves.

The second stage involves special kriya pranayam.

“My guru is Maharishi Bharadwaj, an unknown saint who I was destined to meet,” says Mani. “Palm leaf readers based near the southern Indian city Chennai predicted that I would meet my guru on a full moon day, under an old banyan tree where Krishna of the Mahabharat had spoken the words of the Bhagavad Gita to Arjun, and I would recognize him the moment he uttered the phrase shakti pata.”

Swimming against the tide has always been Mani’s forte. Earlier, he had shaken the reiki community in India by revealing its secret healing symbols in his book Unveiling the Secrets of Reiki. Here the eagle and the snake are placed on either side of the mystic eye.

The initiate looks behind the outer meaning of a protecting amulet and sees the symbols for energy and consciousness, united in a human being who has developed his or her full potential. Not just symbols but also language were used to communicate the concealed to those who were ready for it and able to comprehend it. We know of such a secret language from the Tantric tradition in India.

The principles of yoga need to be adhered to.Yoga Techniques That Help In Relaxation. Among the various types of yoga, one of the reasons why the best time to practice yoga is early in the morning. The philosophy of yoga recommends that yoga should be ideally practiced on an empty.

Also essential are blankets when you are exercising. Yoga, though a rather flexible activity is rather inflexible in many ways. A state of trance is reached when the mind is completely free of all material activities and thoughts in the mind. Power yoga requires a lot of yoga positions for beginners are easily available, it is not as easy as it sounds. You must stretch the other fingers outward. It would, of course, depend on how interested and how committed the person is in yoga.

The right hand is used in this yoga technique you must keep your spine upright and straight and must not bend it. This meditative technique was revealed by Mahavatar Babaji in 1861 who taught it to Lahiri Mahasaya, one of his disciples, who in turn, took it to the world. This yoga equipment is commonly seen in gyms, studios and yoga training centers.

The other very well known yoga technique is the nostril breathing technique and it helps in relaxation. Yoga practitioners say that people who practice yoga techniques must do the above techniques regularly. Now for those who like a little more action, there is the concept of Power Yoga which is a little fast.

Power Yoga may seem to involve easy and free flowing techniques and positions. These poses are accompanied by proper breathing techniques. Just getting the practice right could take maybe a year.