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Benefits of Kriya Yoga

From the talks and writings of Paramahansa
Yogananda:

Kriya Yoga Gives the True Experience of Religion

Your life will reflect spiritual consciousness if you meditate. Since
publication of my book [Autobiography of a Yogi], everyone is
about Kriya Yoga. That is my purpose. I didnt come to give
theological abstractions, but a technique whereby those who are
can truly know God, not just theorize about Him....The practice of
Kriya gives the true experience of religion, which cannot be had
talking about God. Jesus said: Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and
the things which I say?
When by Kriya Yoga I open my spiritual eye, the whole world
away from my consciousness, and God is with me. And why not?

Listen to an audio recording of Paramahansajis

words on Kriya Yoga

His child. St. Ignatius said, God seeks willing hearts that He may give His bounties to them.... That is most

beautiful, and that is what I believe. God seeks willing hearts for the bestowal of His gifts. He is willing to give
everything, but we are not willing to make the effort to be receptive.
Paramahansa Yogananda,
Journey to Self-realization

Open Oneself to the Blessings of God

Prayer with devotion is a wonderful means of opening oneself to the freely flowing blessings of God, a necess

link of mans life to the Infinite Source of all benefaction. But it takes a long time for prayer to be effective wh

mind is outwardly roaming. That is why one hour of Kriya Yogameditation can bestow more effect than twenty
hours of ordinary prayer.

Those who practice the technique of Kriya deeply for even a little while, and sit long in meditation in the resu

stillness, find that the force of their prayer is doubled, trebled, a hundred times more powerful. If one enters t

inner temple of silence and worships before the altar of God with prayer and invocation of His presence, he co
quickly. When the consciousness is withdrawn from the sensory surface of the body and its surroundings and

centralized in the cerebrospinal shrines of soul perception, th

the most effective time to pray.
Paramahansa Yogananda,

The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Ch

Within You

Kriya Yoga Highest Method of God Contact

Kriya Yoga is the highest method of God contact. In my own search for God I traveled all over India, and hea

wisdom from the lips of a number of her greatest masters. I can therefore vouch for the fact that in Self-Reali
teachings are the highest truths and scientific techniques given to mankind by God and the Great Ones.

The aftereffects of Kriya bring with them the utmost peace and bliss. The joy that comes with Kriya is greate

the joys of all pleasurable physical sensations put together. Unattracted to the sensory world, the yogi experie

the ever new joy inherent in the Self. Engaged in divine union of the soul with Spirit, he attains bliss indestruc
(Bhagavad Gita V:21). From that joy experienced in meditation I receive the rest of a thousand sleeps. Sleep
becomes virtually unnecessary to the advanced Kriya Yogi.

When by Kriya Yoga the devotee enters samadhi, wherein his eyes, breath, and heart are quieted, another w

comes into view. Breath, sound, and movement of the eyes belong to this world. But the yogi who has contro

breath may enter the heavenly astral and causal worlds and commune there with Gods saints, or enter cosmi
consciousness and commune with God. The yogi is not interested in anything else.
Whoever will give less importance to everything else, remembering what I have said, will get to God without
Paramahansa Yogananda,
Mans Eternal Quest

Eradicate Bad Mental Habits and Karma

Each of your habits creates a specific groove, or pathway, in the brain. These patterns make you behave in a

certain way, often against your wish. Your life follows those grooves that you yourself have created in the brai

that sense you are not a free person; you are more or less a victim of the habits you have formed. Depending

how set those patterns are, to that degree you are a puppet. But you can neutralize the dictates of those bad

How? By creating brain patterns of opposite good habits. And you can completely erase the grooves of bad ha
meditation. There is no other way. However, you cant cultivate good habits without good company and good
environment. And you cant free yourself from bad habits without good company and meditation....

Every time you meditate deeply on God, beneficial changes take place in the patterns of your brain. Suppose

are a financial failure or a moral failure or a spiritual failure. Through deep meditation, affirming, I and my Fa

are one, you will know that you are the child of God. Hold on to that ideal. Meditate until you feel a great joy.

joy strikes your heart, God has answered your broadcast to Him; He is responding to your prayers and positiv
thinking. This is a distinct and definite method:

First, meditate upon the thought, I and my Father are one, trying to feel a great peace, and then a great joy

your heart. When that joy comes, say, Father, Thou art with me. I command Thy power within me to cauteriz

brain cells of wrong habits and past seed tendencies. The power of God in meditation will do it. Rid yourself o

limiting consciousness that you are a man or a woman; know that you are the child of God. Then mentally aff

and pray to God: I command my brain cells to change, to destroy the grooves of bad habits that have made a

puppet out of me. Lord, burn them up in Thy divine light. And when you will practice the Self-Realization tech
of meditation, especially Kriya Yoga, you will
actually see that light of God baptizing you.
Paramahansa Yogananda,
The Divine Romance

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