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Babaji's Kriya Yoga
Babaji's Kriya Yoga is a scientific art of perfect God Truth union and Self-Realization. It was revived by a great Master of India, Babaji Nagaraj, as a synthesis of ancient teachings of the 18 Siddha tradition. It includes a series of 144 techniques or "Kriyas" grouped into five phases or branches. Kriya Hatha Yoga: including "asanas," physical postures of relaxation, "bandahs," muscular locks, and "mudras," gestures, all of which bring about greater health, peace and the awakening of the principal energy centers, the "chakras". Babaji has selected a particularly effective series of 18 postures, which are taught in stages and in pairs. One cares for the physical body not for its own sake but as a vehicle or temple of the Divine. Kriya Kundalini Pranayama: the potential technique, is a powerful breathing exercise to awaken powerful latent energy and circulate it through the 7 principal chakras between the base of the spine and the crown of the head. It awakens their corresponding psychological states and makes one a dynamo on all five planes of existence. Kriya Dhyana Yoga: meditation, the scientific art of mastering the mind: to cleanse the subconscious, develop concentration, mental clarity and vision, to awaken the intuitive and creative faculties, and to bring about the breathless state of communion with God, "samadhi". Kriya Mantra Yoga: the mental repetition of subtle sounds to awaken the intutition, the intellect and the chakras; the mantra becomes a substitute for the "I" centered mental chatter and facilitates the accumulation of great amounts of energy. The mantra also cleanses habitual subconscious tendencies. Kriya Bhakti Yoga: devotional activities and service to awaken pure Divine universal love and spiritual bliss; it includes chanting and singing, ceremonies, pilgrimages, and worship. Gradually, all of one's activities become soaked with sweetness, as the "Beloved" is perceived in all. "Kriya Yoga brings about an integrated transformation of the individual in all five planes of existence: physical, vital, mental, intellectual and spiritual. Everyone can practice it and thus find happiness and peace." The Modern World needs Kriya Yoga Man today has totally become a slave of artificial gadgets and synthetic products even in matter of food, personal health and every little matter of day-to-day life. He is a rag-doll propped up by a thousand scientific aids and devices. The measure of man's happiness is in proportion to his victory over environment. The less you depend upon other things, the greater your happiness. Depend upon outside objects for your satisfaction then misery is the result. To rise up from this state, the Kriya Yoga way of life is the most effective. This alone has succeeded wonderfully in achieving the task of making man fully self sufficient and making him dispense with external aids at every step. It strengthens his body, mind and soul. Its various practices make him perfectly healthy and render him immune to diseases that have followed in the wake of twentieth century civilization. All sense perceptions become keen and clear, as the mind and intellect are wonderfully sharpened. Man's latent faculties are developed and hidden powers are brought forth. He is fit to become a capable head in his own home, a useful member of society and an able and ideal citizen of the country. He is the leader of men; he even becomes invested with the power of helping and guiding humanity itself. The present day attitude has degenerated into something short of a mixture of dogmatism and disbelief. It is more skeptical than impartially critical. It is prejudiced against the traditional, the ancient. Humanity of the twentieth century is dominated by rajas. Activity consciously charged with high tension characterizes the daily round of the average man everywhere. Occidental civilization that has spread the world over and money and the means of acquiring it are the sole concern. If the principles of Babaji and the Kriya Yoga way of life are to be made, the means of redeeming and elevating man from this morass, all the previously mentioned facts, will have to be taken into consideration. This passion for extreme activity cannot be repressed. The modern individual cannot be quiescent. A rescuer on the edge of a pond has to bend and assume a stooping posture in order to pull out a person struggling in the mire. Yoga, too, has to assume the aspect of being readily practicable to all. As activity is unavoidable, Yoga has to be attained in and through activity. The Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Vashistha are the greatest scriptures for the world in this age. The Gita ideal is the most eminently suited in the present age. Every normal act should constitute a synthesis of all Yogas. Sadhana should not imply a divorce and severance from normal life. The latter will itself become a dynamic sadhana through a shifting of your angle of vision. A proper bhava becomes the philosopher's stone to transfer the normal into the yogic. The eminently practical nature of Kriya Yoga renders it the rational bridge between the idealism of pure philosophy and the hard realism of earthly life. Its claim upon modern man is that it strikes a golden mean between the entirely abstract speculations of the mere theorist, and the overdone matter-of-fact attitude and the prosaic hard-headedness of the rank materialist. It is concerned with the transcendental life, yet asks you to take nothing for granted. You are to follow definite methods, arrive at tangible results and experience them in your own life. Its scope is comprehensive. It aims at an integral development of all faculties in man. It is then the precursor and the direct herald of the race of supermen into which present man has to evolve. It has as its aim, the creation of a new man of deep illumination and high vision and the establishment a new world order, a satya yuga, world of truth, as a result of such enlightenment. The modern world abounds in conceptions of Yoga ranging from the deeply mystic and sensible to the absurd and ludicrous. Conflicting views and wild fanciful notions have clustered around conceptions of Yoga and sadhana. It has become conventional to conjure a picture of an emaciated, half-naked, ash smeared figure with matted locks, seated cross-legged beneath a spreading tree. Through long associations as well as mischievous misrepresentations, such notions have taken deep root. The super-physical phenomena occurring in the practice of Yoga and practitioner's experiences on subtler planes are viewed with suspicion and regarded as magic. Now this point is to be grasped clearly. Kriya Yoga is neither fanciful nor does it contain anything abnormal. It is not for the favored few. It is not a strange unnatural process practiced by a small minority to gain some strange or extraordinary end. Kriya Yoga is a time-tested, rational way to a fuller and more blessed life, which will naturally be followed by one and all, in the world of tomorrow. It is not dependent upon the possession and exercise of any abnormal faculties. It only requires you to develop faculties that you already possess but which are lying dormant within you. The chief instrument that it utilizes is one that is common to the whole of humanity, namely, the human mind. Kriya Yoga is thus, not a study or practice meant only for the reclusive in the Himalayan caves. It is not only meant for one who clothes himself in rags, who has the stone as the pillow, who eats what he gets by a mere stretch of his two palms, who weathers the cold and the heat, who remains under the canopy of the sky. Kriya Yoga is meant equally for those who live in their different stations in life, who live in the world and who live to serve the world. It is not only a property of the samnyasin, or the yogi, but is also a universal property. It is a universal subject that requires deep study and sincere practice at the hands of citizens, townsmen, villagers and forest-dwellers. It is the marvelous science whose one fruit is not of discord, but of true peace, born of the soul, born of Infinite Bliss. For more information visit: BABAJI'S Kriya Yoga
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