The Secret Power Of Kriya Yoga: Revealing the Fastest Path to Enlightenment. How Fusing Bhakti Yoga & Jnana Yoga into Kriya Yoga will Unleash the most Powerful Yoga Ever (Real Yoga Book 2) by SantataGamana

Author:SantataGamana
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Real Yoga
Published: 2017-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

-Lahiri Mahasaya,

written in his diaries,

published by Dr. Ashoke Kumar Chatterjee

chapter 9

The Miracle of Jnana Yoga

People usually think Jnana Yoga is some intellectual practice, just reading the scriptures or continually asking “Who am I?” or “What am I?” and so on. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

True Jnana Yoga is the awakening of real Discernment-Wisdom by abiding in the “I am” state, which is the same as the Parvastha state of Kriya’s “After-Effect-Awareness.” The only difference is the method used to reach that state. If in Kriya Yoga we use life-force restraint techniques, Mudras, Bandhas, etc., in Jnana Yoga we ask ourselves “Who Am I?” —and feel the answer as “I am,” as that empty consciousness that underlies all experience.

We know “I exist” or “I am.” We know that we exist, that we are. This sense of beingness, of existence, the sense of “I am” —we recognize its presence in us and stay with it. This is true Jnana Yoga, or better yet, Atma-Vichara (Self-Inquiry).

Atma-Vichara is not about asking “From where does this world arise?”, “How does suffering end?”, “What is the nature of so and so?”, or anything like that. That is not Self-Inquiry; that is “otherness-inquiry.”

The only necessary questions are those who turn our extroverted attention on itself, such as “Who am I?” or “To whom do these thoughts arise?” The purpose is to revert the mind toward the background of consciousness. It is just a way to be in a Self-awareness state.

That being said, most of the times, our mind is not calm enough to be able to sustain the feeling “I am.” That’s why we start with Kriya Yoga, rather than asking ‘Who am I?’ and just having the mind go crazy with thoughts and desires and so on. It is easier to quiet the mind first through Kriya Yoga, for the Kriya practices have a tremendous impact on the mind, stilling it.

Breath is related to prana (life-force) and the mind. Breath is the gross form of prana, and prana is the gross form of the mind. By controlling one, we control the other. That’s why we practice Pranayama and Kriya Supreme Fire, for they allow us to control the breath, prana, and the mind.

With a stilled mind, we can proceed even further into Bhakti Yoga by adding more love and one-pointed devotion into the equation, which is of huge importance, and then finally arrive at Jnana-Kriya Yoga’s Parvastha.

“Remaining in Kriya’s transcendental state,

desires are extinct.”

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