15 Days Kriya Meditation Yoga

 

 

Rishikesh Nath Yogshala organizes to take initiative and learn Kriya Yoga Meditation techniques for Self-realization.

• Kriya Meditation Yoga

Kriya-yoga is a meditation technique based on pranic energy (Life-force) and chakras (energy centers in Central Nervous System) beginning with the breath. This is a technique of Self-realization. Kriya Yoga is one of the most powerful methods of meditation and the awakening of spiritual consciousness in man. This is to know the life-force that controls our physical, subtle and causal bodies; this is to have mastery over our mind. In addition to these, it develops concentration, sharpens intellect, increases discriminating ability, increases work potential leading to success in business and job, and hence increases material prosperity. This also brings harmony in family and social life, removes ill effects of planets on your life, reduces worries and stress, removes psycho-somatic ailments and increases life span. A practitioner learns to live a tension free life with knowledge, development, peace and bliss.

 

Kriya Yoga is a union of wise combinations of bandhas, mudras, pranayama, asanas, and awareness. The teaching and learning of Kriya Yoga is done gradually. A beginner starts with the First Kriya. Then she/he proceeds into Second Kriya and so on. In the First Kriya she/he learns the techniques, viz., Nabhi Kriya, Khechari Mudra, Guru Pranam, Om technique, Hamsa Sadhana, Mahamudra, Kriya-1, Paravastha, Jyoti Mudra and Sambhavi Mudra etc.

 

Tradition

The teachings Kriya-yoga are found in Vedas, Upanishads, Yoga sutras and Bhagavad-Gita. In the course of time practical aspect of this ancient knowledge was forgotten. In the 19th century this was again made popular by Yogiraj Shri Shyamacharana Lahiri when he learned it from a Himalayan Yogi known as Mahavatara Babaji. Lahiri Mahasaya obtained the highest Knowledge by the practice of this Kriya Yoga. One of his best disciples was a great yogi, Swami Shriyukteswara Giri Maharaj, whose world famous disciple and author of the book, Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahamsa Yogananda had an important role in spreading the Kriya Yoga in the Western countries in the beginning of twentieth century.