![]() The internalization of the fire is also associated with tapas, "heat," burning away the defilements, and with pranayama, the control of the breath. Where the Brahmin maintains the world order by his sacrifices, for the yogi the breath becomes a perpetual ritual. Yael Bentor further explains that in the Upanishads this internalized fire ritual is associated with the maintenance of life, through breathing and eating. Tanya Lynne Brittain further explains that while "Kriya yoga is 'usually understood to mean 'yoga as practice' or “practical yoga,' also associated with the vocabulary of initiation and sacrifice." The kriya yoga pranayama practices are a form of kundalini-practice, which culminate in kriya, the "inner fire rite," the internalized Vedic fire sacrifice. In the Kriya Yoga school, 'ritual action' involves breathing techniques ( pranayama) revolving the life energy ( prana) "upward and downward, around the six spinal centers" and upwards to the crown-chakra. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.1 defines three types of kriyā, namely tapas ("heat," ascetic practices), svadhyaya (study or recitation of the Vedas, or “contemplation, meditation, reflection of one's self”), and Isvara pranidhana (devotion or surrender to God). KRIYA YOGA is thus "union (yoga) with the Infinite through a certain action or rite." Īccording to Jones and Ryan, kriya Yoga may be literally translated as "yoga of ritual action," noting that it "is contrasted with jnana (learning) yoga and equated with karma (action) yoga in the Trishikhi-Brahmana Upanishad." 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. ![]() According to Jaerschky, kevali-pranayama leads to kevala kumbhaka, "the natural state of breathlessness, which is the goal of all deep yogis." Yoga Ī kriya may refer to any kind of practice in the context of yoga. Jaerschky elucidates that kabali (Bengali) is synonymous with kaivalya (kevali, kevala), "isolation," the isolation of purusha (consciousness, spirit) from prakriti (nature or matter, including the human mind and emotions), or the unification with God. In this way exhalations and inhalations become unnecessary the cells are recharged by the reinforced bodily life-force and the cosmic life the physical cells therefore neither change nor decay. Kriya Yoga is described in certain scriptures as Kabali- pranayama, considered to be the greatest of all techniques in controlling prana (life force) by distilling prana from the breath and thus recharging the body cells. Babaji renamed it, simply, Kriya Yoga." In his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, Yogananda further explains that Lahiri Mahasaya received it from his great guru, Babaji, who rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages. Etymology Īccording to Yogananda, "Kriya is an ancient science. ![]() Kriya Yoga was brought to international awareness by Paramahansa Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi and through Yogananda's introductions of the practice to the West from 1920. It is described by its practitioners as an ancient yoga system revived in modern times by Lahiri Mahasaya, who claimed to be initiated by a guru, Mahavatar Babaji, circa 1861 in the Himalayas. Kriya Yoga (Sanskrit: क्रिया योग) is a yoga system which consists of a number of levels of pranayama, mantra, and mudra, intended to rapidly accelerate spiritual development and engender a profound state of tranquility and God-communion. ![]() Mahavatar Babaji transmitted to Lahiri Mahasaya
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