Practicing With Quotes From the
Autobiography of a Yogi
This blog is a workshop for Kriya Yogis.
Each day take the offered quote from the Autobiography of a Yogi into your meditation. Try to understand it intuitively, deeply. In this way, may the divine brilliancy of Kriya Yoga become ever more evident to all of us, day by day.
Jai Guru.
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Day 1
PRACTICING AN INNER RITE FOR UNION WITH THE INFINITE
The Sanskrit root of Kriya is kri, to do, to act and react; the same root is found in the word karma, the natural principle of cause and effect. Kriya Yoga is thus “union (yoga) with the Infinite through a certain action or rite.”
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that each Kriya breath is a sacred rite which unites you with the Infinite.
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Day 2
PRACTICING AN ANCIENT TECHNIQUE
Kriya is an ancient science. Lahiri Mahasaya received it from his guru, Babaji, who rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that you have received from Babaji and the great Gurus a powerful and precious technique which has been practiced for millennia.
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Day 3
BEING CONNECTED WITH A DIVINE KRIYA TRADITION
Elijah, Jesus, Kabir and other prophets were past masters in the use of Kriya or a similar technique, by which they caused their bodies to dematerialize at will.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that through Kriya you are in the holy company of Jesus, Elijah, Kabir, and many other saintly prophets.
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Day 4
PRACTICING THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION IN EAST AND WEST
“The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century, Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya,“is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples.”
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that Krishna, Arjuna, Patanjali, Christ, and the apostles are part of your divine Kriya tradition, blessing your efforts.
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Day 5
PRACTICING ORIGINAL CHRISTIANITY
St. Paul knew Kriya Yoga, or a technique very similar to it, by which he could switch life currents to and from the senses. He was therefore able to say: “Verily, I protest by our rejoicing which I have in Christ, I die daily.” By daily withdrawing his bodily life force, he united it by yoga union with the rejoicing (eternal bliss) of the Christ consciousness. In that felicitous state, he was consciously aware of being dead to the delusive sensory world of maya.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that you are practicing what the original Christians did: mystically dying to the outer world, and being blissfully born in Spirit.
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Day 6
PRACTICING ORIGINAL YOGA
Kriya Yoga is referred to by Krishna, India’s greatest prophet, in a stanza of the Bhagavad Gita: “Offering inhaling breath into the outgoing breath, and offering the outgoing breath into the inhaling breath, the yogi neutralizes both these breaths; he thus releases the life force from the heart and brings it under his control.”
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that you are practicing the original yoga of Krishna, which has as its goal the breathless state of God-union.
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Day 7
PRACTICING THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI
Kriya Yoga is mentioned twice by the ancient sage Patanjali, foremost exponent of yoga, who wrote: “Kriya Yoga consists of body discipline, mental control, and meditating on Aum.”… Patanjali refers a second time to the life-control or Kriya technique thus: “Liberation can be accomplished by that pranayama which is attained by disjoining the course of inspiration and expiration.”
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel yourself in the company of the father of Yoga, Patanjali, who inspires you to get closer to the sacred AUM sound, and to the inner bliss of breathlessness.
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Day 8
SPEEDING UP OUR SOUL’S EVOLUTION
“Kriya is your chintamani,” (a mythological gem with power to grant desires), I told the new student. “The technique, which as you see is simple, embodies the art of quickening man’s spiritual evolution. Hindu scriptures teach that the incarnating ego requires a million years to obtain liberation from maya. This natural period is greatly shortened through Kriya Yoga.”
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that this simple technique is mightily speeding up your journey to liberation.
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Day 9
PRACTICING BREATH MASTERY
Kriya Yoga is an instrument through which human evolution can be quickened,Sri Yukteswar explained to his students. “The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery.”
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that your goal is breath mastery: moving from a deep breath, which oxygenates your blood, toward less breath, and finally toward breathlessness.
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Day 10
PRACTICING BREATHLESSNESS IS DEATHLESSNESS
The Kriya Yogi uses his technique to saturate and feed all his physical cells with undecaying light and keep them in a magnetized state. He scientifically makes breath unnecessary, without producing the states of subconscious sleep or unconsciousness.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Try to feel that your body is being filled with “undecaying light,” becoming divinely “magnetized”.
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Day 11
PRACTICING BREATHLESSNESS FOR COSMIC EXPANSION
Untying the cord of breath which binds the soul to the body, Kriya serves to prolong life and enlarge the consciousness to infinity.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that, as your breath diminishes, your consciousness is being freed, ready to expand toward the cosmos.
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Day 12
PRACTICING ONE KRIYA FOR ONE YEAR OF EVOLUTION
The Kriya Yogi mentally directs his life energy to revolve, upward and downward, around the six spinal centers (medullary, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses) which correspond to the twelve astral signs of the zodiac, the symbolic Cosmic Man. One-half minute of revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of man effects subtle progress in his evolution; that half-minute of Kriya equals one year of natural spiritual unfoldment.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Check if your Kriya is indeed around half a minute long. Feel that each Kriya-breath, if you direct your life-force with concentration up and down along the chakras, equals one year of natural evolution.
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Day 13
PRACTICING THE FASTEST WAY
Kriya, controlling the mind directly through the life force, is the easiest, most effective, and most scientific avenue of approach to the Infinite. In contrast to the slow, uncertain “bullock cart” theological path to God, Kriya may justly be called the “airplane” route.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that you are sitting in a mystical airplane to God, who appears when, through life-force control, you pull away from the senses.
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Day 14
PRACTICING THE ELECTRIFICATION THE SPINE
By Kriya, the outgoing life force is not wasted and abused in the senses, but constrained to reunite with subtler spinal energies. By such reinforcement of life, the yogi’s body and brain cells are electrified with the spiritual elixir.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that you are withdrawing all your life-force into the spine, which electrifies you from within with a “spiritual elixir.”
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Day 15
ENTERING INTO THE SPINAL SHRINE
The advanced yogi, withholding all his mind, will, and feeling from false identification with bodily desires, uniting his mind with superconscious forces in the spinal shrines, thus lives in this world as God hath planned, not impelled by impulses from the past nor by new witlessnesses of fresh human motivations. Such a yogi receives fulfillment of his Supreme Desire, safe in the final haven of inexhaustibly blissful Spirit.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Try to unite your mind with the sacred “spinal shrines,” the chakras, nourishing thereby a deep sense of satisfaction from inside, from God, which will end all human and worldly desires.
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Day 16
OXYGENATING & ENERGIZING THE CHAKRAS
Kriya Yoga is a simple, psychophysiological method by which the human blood is decarbonized and recharged with oxygen. The atoms of this extra oxygen are transmuted into life current to rejuvenate the brain and spinal centers.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Especially during the first Kriyas, breathe deeply to oxygenate your blood. Feel that the oxygen is being transmuted into life-force, rejuvenating your chakras and your brain.
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Day 17
GOING FROM THE SENSES TOWARD HEAVEN
Attaining this power of sense-disconnection, the yogi finds it simple to unite his mind at will with divine realms or with the world of matter. No longer is he unwillingly brought back by the life force to the mundane sphere of rowdy sensations and restless thoughts. Master of his body and mind, the Kriya Yogi ultimately achieves victory over the “last enemy,” death.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Consciously practice pratyahara, completely withdrawing your mind from the senses and the outer world, entering the divine inner world.
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Day 18
PRACTICING SELF-REALIZATION
Spurning the transitory truths and freedoms, the Kriya Yogi passes beyond all disillusionment into his unfettered Being. All scriptures declare man to be not a corruptible body, but a living soul; by Kriya he is given a method to prove the scriptural truth.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that each Kriya breath takes you deep inside, where you realize: “I am not the body. I am Spirit, forever free”.
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Day 19
PRACTICING THE POWER OF KRIYA YOGA
The body of the average man is like a fifty-watt lamp, which cannot accommodate the billion watts of power roused by an excessive practice of Kriya. Through gradual and regular increase of the simple and “foolproof” methods of Kriya, man’s body becomes astrally transformed day by day, and is finally fitted to express the infinite potentials of cosmic energy–the first materially active expression of Spirit.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Make your inner currents powerful, using will, visualization and concentration, gradually turning your fifty-watt lamp into 100 watts, then 200, then 1000, then 10000: Kriya is supposed to awaken kundalini.
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Day 20
PRACTICING INNER PURIFICATION
A yogi who faithfully follows its technique is gradually freed from karma or the universal chain of causation… Kriya Yoga is the real fire rite often extolled in the Bhagavad Gita. The purifying fires of yoga bring eternal illumination, and thus differ much from outward and little-effective religious fire ceremonies, where perception of truth is oft burnt, to solemn chanted accompaniment, along with the incense!… The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine. The Ultimate Flame receives the sacrifice of all human madness, and man is pure of dross. His bones stripped of all desirous flesh, his karmic skeleton bleached in the antiseptic suns of wisdom, he is clean at last, inoffensive before man and Maker.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that the Kriya currents are a powerful fire rite, purifying you from all karma. Offer into its flames all your attachments, desires, all your “human madness.”
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Day 21
PREPARING A GLORIOUS FUTURE
A yogi who dies before achieving full realization carries with him the good karma of his past Kriya effort; in his new life he is harmoniously propelled toward his Infinite Goal.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that each Kriya is creating your golden destiny, preparing you for the final Infinite Goal.
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Day 22
PRACTICING THE FIRST KRIYA-SENSATIONS
Kriya, on the other hand, is accompanied from the very beginning by an accession of peace, and by soothing sensations of regenerative effect in the spine.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Try to feel these “soothing sensations” in the spine, the “regenerative effect” of Kriya.
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Day 23
PRACTICING THE HIGH KRIYA-STATES
In deep meditation, the first experience of Spirit is on the altar of the spine, and then in the brain. The torrential bliss is overwhelming, but the yogi learns to control its outward manifestations.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Tune into the bliss in the spine, which is the “altar” of God within.
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Day 24
PRACTICING KRIYA STEADFASTLY
“The darkness of maya is silently approaching. Let us hie homeward within.” With these words at dusk Master constantly reminded his disciples of their need for Kriya Yoga.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Repeat inwardly your vow that you will regularly and faithfully practice this sacred technique of liberation.
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Day 25
PRACTICING KRIYA TO SOLVE PROBLEMS
No matter what the disciple’s problem, the guru [Lahiri Mahasaya] advised
Kriya Yoga for its solution.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that Kriya is resolving your momentary problems, as it brings you the one great solution, God, who heals, resolves, harmonizes, purifies, and blesses.
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Day 26
PRACTICING KRIYA EFFECTIVELY
I myself consider Kriya the most effective device of salvation through self-effort ever to be evolved in man’s search for the Infinite.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
If for some time you don’t feel inner progress, instead of finding fault with your tools, experiment during your Kriya and intuitionally find out which important element is missing in your practice.
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Day 27
INNER GUIDANCE THROUGH KRIYA
The life of an advanced Kriya Yogi is influenced, not by effects of past actions,
but solely by directions from the soul.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Enter into the kingdom of your soul. At the end of your practice, ask it for guidance for your life.
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Day 28
STRIVE UNCEASINGLY THROUGH KRIYA
You recall how often our blessed guru used to say: ‘Banat, banat, ban jai.’
[Striving, striving, one day behold! the Divine Goal!] So keep up Kriya Yoga ceaselessly, and reach the divine portals quickly.”
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Keep up your striving for the divine goal, unceasingly, intensely, with each Kriya breath, never letting your energy drop.
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Day 29
INNER GUIDANCE THROUGH KRIYA
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
As you go within, try to feel yourself as the “Infinite Essence.”
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Day 30
PRACTICING KRIYA WITH THE GURU
“I am ever with those who practice Kriya,” he [Lahiri Mahasaya] said consolingly to chelas who could not remain near him. “I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.”
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Feel that your Guru is with you during Kriya, guiding you lovingly “to the Cosmic Home.”
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Day 31
GOD-REALIZATION: EVER-NEW-JOY
After the mind has been cleared by Kriya Yoga of sensory obstacles, meditation furnishes a twofold proof of God. Ever-new joy is evidence of His existence, convincing to our very atoms. Also, in meditation one finds His instant guidance, His adequate response to every difficulty.
As you practice Kriya Yoga today:
Try to practice it devotionally, with God’s presence, feeling Him as ever-new Joy. Then, in the inner silence, feel His guidance for your life’s difficulties.