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\u2013 Letter from Mayadevi<\/p>\n
\u2013 Excerpts from a Kriya Initiation talk given by Mayadevi<\/p>\n
Dear kriyabans,<\/p>\n
How are your kriyas going these days? This world is becoming crazier every day .\u2026 and we can easily be influenced by these vibrations too and become restless in our practice.<\/p>\n
Besides doing Master\u2019s prayer for peace and harmony, our daily kriya practice can help a lot. While doing kriyas and praying we emanate strong vibrations of high spiritual energy \u2013 exactly what this world needs to offset the hateful energies we see when we watch the news.<\/p>\n
Let us all be beacons of Light \u2013 consciously serving as channels for the Light of God and the Masters.<\/p>\n
A kriyaban friend wrote, \u201cI really needed this kriya check up! Now my practice has become something else. I don\u2019t experience it anymore as a \u201chostile\u201d moment, which sometimes left me without breath.\u201d A.<\/p>\n
Please, let us help you with your kriya practice, to make it relaxed and powerful. Whenever you can, come \u2013 and let me know ahead of time so that I (or another kriyacharya of your choice) can check your practice and help you deepen it. And if you cannot come, let\u2019s skype or speak by phone. Skype: mayadevi-ananda, phone: 0039 393 96 22 576<\/p>\n
Another kriyaban wrote: Practicing kriya is as if a great void grew around me, in some moments it is as if nothing surrounds me, only a feeling of great peace and total protection \u2026 in other moments it is as if I had nothing more to do with this world, because everything which counts is already inside of me .\u2026 stable, firm, calm, undisturbed. I will never be able to thank Master enough for having given me the possibility to come to Ananda and to you all, who have taken me by the hand and brought me so close to Him.\u201d G.<\/p>\n
It is our greatest joy if we can be of service to Master in you!<\/p>\n
Many blessings, hoping to see many of you here this summer for the kriya initiations in July and August, or in any other moment.<\/p>\n
Love, mayadevi<\/p>\n
For Kriya Sangha<\/p>\n
We read in the scriptures, and are reminded in every Sunday service ceremony, that we are free souls, made in the image of God; that His omnipresence is our omnipresence, that ever new Joy-even Bliss- is our birthright.<\/p>\n
Why, then, are we living as limited beings, experiencing varying degrees of suffering, in material identification or even bondage, and worrying for our well-being? Why can we not live as children of God, as the free soul?<\/p>\n
On an intellectual level we might well be able to imagine ourselves as a free soul, but when we look at our daily lives, we realize how strongly we are identified with the body and its needs; how much we perceive everything through our filters of likes and dislikes \u2013 and then interpret everything accordingly, react accordingly, and create karma accordingly.<\/p>\n
We simply cannot help it \u2014 yet!<\/p>\n
Our energy is so used to flowing outward through body, senses and mind, making us identify ourselves as the ego in this world of maya and delusion. To change this identification and our magnetism, to get rid of our karma, we can work in three ways:<\/p>\n
* by awareness, introspection, observing ourselves, trying to change ourselves and living dharmically<\/p>\n
* by techniques that increase the energy flow in the deep spine, and with this our magnetism, and dissolve karma. When our energy flows in and up, we begin to identify ourselves as the soul.<\/p>\n
* by attunement with the Guru and his energy and magnetism \u2013 which will then increase and change ours and even help to overcome our karma.<\/p>\n
That is why Kriya is given as an initiation: we draw on the Guru\u2019s blessing and grace, as we offer our gifts and ourselves to him. The kriyacharyas pray that he use them as his channels to touch the disciples. And this is the most important part of this initiation tonight: to open ourselves to the grace and blessing of our Master.<\/p>\n
Next to Guru-attunement the quickest way of changing ourselves and our karma is by the kriya yoga technique.<\/p>\n
Lahiri Mahasaya said we should solve all our problems with kriya yoga.<\/p>\n
Babaji said that even a little practice of this inward religion will free us from dire fears and colossal sufferings.<\/p>\n
When we are more centered in the deep spine (Master always said we should live more in the spine) and our energy is flowing up, our whole perspective changes. In the deep spine you feel joy \u2013 a little joy or more and more joy \u2013 and one day we will even experience what Master described as \u201cwave after wave of ever new joy crashing onto the shores of our consciousness.\u201d And we will become ever-more identified with the immortal soul.<\/p>\n
As a calm observer living in a state of joy, you perceive what is happening around you without being much influenced by it. You are less prone to react to what is happening and more able to act as a channel for God and Guru. Maybe nothing has changed around you, but everything has changed because you are seeing it from a higher consciousness and not getting drawn into it. Suffering usually comes from being identified with the situation and from our emotional reaction to it.<\/p>\n
Master promises, \u201cBy this initiation, the consciousness which is in the body, and which is identified with the senses, is transferred to the spine and the brain, and thus transmuted into Super-Consciousness and Cosmic Consciousness. With this great initiation you can awaken the spine and create an altar within your spine, and you can then say that God is not in restless things, but in the greatest measure within yourself. \u201c<\/p>\n
Jesus said, \u201cThe kingdom of God is within you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Master said the way to liberation is through our own nervous system: \u201cIf you just imagine that you are in Cosmic Consciousness, that does not make it so; you are in the flesh; but as soon as you disconnect yourself through this technique, then your mortal thread of the body is cut and your consciousness is centered in the spine. When coolness of the spine comes, all the energy from the senses is sucked into the spine, producing perfect sensory relaxation. It is perfect control of the senses.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is how kriya helps you to get out of the reactive process, out of \u201cdire fears and colossal sufferings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paramhansa Yogananda said, \u201cThe purpose of Kriya is to magnetize the spine by circulating the life current lengthwise around it, and thereby withdrawing the life current from the senses and involuntary organs and concentrating it in the spine. This also helps to change the center of consciousness from the body and senses to the spine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patanjali says we should offer pran into apan (Ida into Pingala), and apan into pran, and commingle the two currents to bring us into the sushumna.<\/p>\n
As we practice kriya and hong-sau, try to use the energy flow to bring you deeper within, but also visualize the energies merging into each other, and finally neutralizing each other as the energy flows up in the sushumna.<\/p>\n
Paramhansa Yogananda said, \u201cWhen consciousness and energy become centralized in the spine, boundless ever-new joy will be felt in the spine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFocusing the vision and the will power at the point between the eyebrows, and imagining the circulation of the current and breath going up and down the spine, will bring about the actual circulation of this current. Will and imagination transmute the oxygen of breath into energy and reinforce it with the energy of the spine and then make the energy revolve around the spine.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is very interesting: will and imagination will bring about an actual flow of energy! Kriya is much more mental and astral than physical! We often think we need to pull the energy up, by pulling on the breath, but it is will and imagination and our intention to offer ourselves into the spiritual eye that creates the energy flow.<\/p>\n
Devotion also plays a very important role. How often did Swamiji remind us that Kriya done without devotion is not kriya! He also said we should do kriya like an arati, offering up all of ourselves. Master said, \u201cKriya Yoga and devotion are like mathematics: together they cannot fail.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many years ago I saw a wonderful manifestation of God and Guru\u2019s grace. In my service of checking the kriya practice of kriyabans, I saw the same story in three different older devotee ladies. This was before we had started to train people a lot in the right use of the diaphragm for the kriya breath. These ladies all had the same problem in that they were unable to do inhalations which were longer than 3 counts. Unconsciously, they had adopted this solution to have nice long breaths: they did a very quick inhalation and then exhaled with \u201caww,\u201d did another quick inhalation and then exhaled with \u201ceee.\u201d It sounded good, and I barely saw these short inhalations. All three of them had no idea that they were doing this and at first couldn\u2019t even believe me. But also, all three of them had told me with shining eyes how wonderful kriya was, how it had changed their lives, and how many blessings they were receiving. This I fully believed, because I could see it in their eyes. All three of them were very devoutly and faithfully doing their kriyas. Although technically incorrect and probably ineffective, their practice drew all this grace and blessing because of their great devotion.<\/p>\n
It reminds me of the story where Master told a devotee who couldn\u2019t meditate well that if she kept her attunement he would meditate for her. What a great blessing it is to have Master as our Guru!<\/p>\n
And so Kriya is given as an initiation to disciples and not just as a technique. When you do your kriyas, ask Master to guide you and to guide and increase your energy, that it may dissolve as much karma as possible. Feel that it is he who moves the energy in your spine. And you can even ask him to help dissolve a particular karma.<\/p>\n
May your practice give you much joy and help you to live always more in the consciousness of being the free soul!<\/p>\n
Jai Guru<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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