1. 巴巴吉和他的咒語Om Kriya Babaji Nama Aum
說到巴巴吉克利亞瑜伽，就必須先提到巴巴吉和他的咒語Om Kriya Babaji Nama Aum，這可以使一個人的脈動與巴巴吉的脈動連接。這句咒語可以將人心與宇宙的心跳連接，也可以與喜馬拉雅瑜伽大成就者巴巴吉的恩典連接。通過這句咒語，巴巴吉向其皈依者揭示了自己。他通過克利亞瑜伽的種種技巧指導學生的努力修行，並間接指導學生的生活。我們可以與位於頂輪的內在大師通過上師的咒語獲得連接。咒語是沙克提（Shakti），即一種強大的能量。上師通過咒語傳遞他的能量，能量通過咒語進入弟子。咒語是上師的一種形式。因為上師是一種是自然的原則或者說是真理（tattva）。因此這是創造並維持生命，並引導整個外部和內部宇宙的力量。上師原則（真理）超越時間和空間的限制，因為時間和空間是這種創造性原則和生命力的產物。
即使在宇宙生成之前，上師原則（真理）就存在了，就像水、土、空氣、火和以太各種元素一樣，從那時起就一直是創造的一部分。每個人內部存在的上師原則就是內在的真正自我。當我們念誦咒語時，就是在向我們內在的上師表示敬意。上師即是真正的自我，是至高無上的覺識和幸福。
2. 咒語OM KRIYA BABAJI NAMA AUM的解釋
Om 是透過生命能量流動的宇宙初始之音；
Kriya是三種沙克提（shakti即能量）中的一種：三種沙克提分別是kriya shakti，即行動的能量；iccha Shakti即意志的能量和jnana Shakti即智慧的能量；
Babaji巴巴吉是克利亞瑜伽傳統源頭古茹（上師），即在尤迦南達的《一個瑜伽修行者的自傳》一書中多次提及的巴巴吉；
Nama 即頂禮，我求告你；
Aum 是內在宇宙之音。NAMA AUM是對更高的自我的呼喚和祈求。
隨著我們越來越覺識到真正的自我，在任何情況下我們都能感受到神之手的存在。你會看到神，感受到自己被引導且被接受。當與上師建立永恆的聯繫時，我們所做的一切都會受到上師的指導，這是克利亞瑜伽。
3. 克利亞瑜伽傳統的起源
巴巴吉是一位偉大的瑜伽大師，他在西藏和印度喜馬拉雅山默默無聞地生活了多個世紀。隨著1946年尤迦南達的「一位瑜伽修行者的自傳」一書的出版，向大眾示現了巴巴吉的存在。尤迦南達提到巴巴吉以匿名的身份通過許多人提升世界的覺識程度。
尤迦南達提到在1861年，巴巴吉引導拉西裡馬哈薩亞（Lahiri Mahasaya）通過修習克利亞瑜伽而悟道。拉西裡之後將其傳授給了於克特斯瓦（Sri Yukteswar），後者是尤迦南達的老師，之後他們將克利亞瑜伽帶到了西方。1920年，尤迦南達創立了自我實現團體，自1952年他離開這個世界以來，該團體繼續通過書籍和函授課程傳播他的教學。
巴巴吉的克利亞瑜伽傳統直接來自印度古老的克利亞傳統，來自溼婆瑜伽大師即十八位瑜伽大成就者。巴巴吉本人有兩位主要的上師阿嘎斯提亞（Agastyar）和博格納薩（Boganathar）。「巴巴吉和十八位瑜伽成就者的克利亞瑜伽傳統」一書提供了巴巴吉揭示的與這些偉大的瑜伽成就者早期生活的細節。另外一本「巴巴吉之聲：克利亞瑜伽三部曲」由巴巴吉於1952年和1953年向其弟子尼拉康騰口述寫成。這兩本書都揭示了巴巴吉如何通過其弟子尼拉康騰和拉邁亞開始傳播克利亞瑜伽的早期年代。
巴巴吉的克裡亞瑜伽包括144個克利亞技巧，形成一個漸進的系統，在以前會通過許多年的一系列入門培訓逐步教授。這一套五分支的瑜伽系統在1955年的幾個月內由巴巴吉親自在喜馬拉雅山內的巴德裡納斯（badrinath）傳授給瑜伽士拉邁亞。第一級的入門培訓包括克利亞靈能調息法等重要技巧，這與自我實現團體今天教授的技巧非常相似。尤迦南達就談到過克利亞靈能調息法是加速人類覺識自然提升的手段。
1983年，瑜伽士拉邁亞對馬歇爾葛文登（Marshall Govindan）提出了一系列嚴苛的條件，只有葛文登滿足這些條件後才能教授克利亞瑜伽的144種技巧。葛文登在1983年之前已經長達12年每周不間斷練習克利亞瑜伽至少56小時，瑜伽士拉邁亞經常說這是修習瑜伽理想的時間長度。1981年，葛文登獨自在斯裡蘭卡海邊的一間小屋內在靜默中不間斷修習瑜伽一整年。之後葛文登花了三年時間才得以滿足上述拉邁亞設定的各種條件。此時，拉邁亞告訴他：「現在，你等著」。拉邁亞經常說，一旦他把學生帶到了上師的腳下，他的工作就完成了。1988年聖誕節前夕，在一系列深刻的靈性體驗中，巴巴吉給葛文登發出了消息，讓他離開拉邁亞的靜修所和組織，開始通過入門培訓教授克利亞瑜伽。
從此以後，葛文登的生活是由上師持續且鼓舞人心的光所引導的，向他人展示自我實現之路。從1989年開始，他的生活就朝著這個新的方向開始，門自動被打開，一切都為了促進這個新使命而自然發生。1992年，葛文登在魁北克成立了巴巴吉克利亞瑜伽靜修所。1997年，他創立了克利亞瑜伽教師會。這是一個在加拿大、美國、印度和斯裡蘭卡註冊的免稅教育慈善機構。到目前為止，在全世界十幾個國家有多位教授克利亞瑜伽的老師。自2000年以來，教師會還贊助了所有十八位瑜伽成就者的研究、史料保存、轉錄、翻譯和書籍的出版，這些瑜伽成就者是巴巴吉克利亞瑜伽的起源，其中包括「巴巴吉之聲:克利亞瑜伽三部曲」一書。巴巴吉克利亞瑜伽是一種可以提升覺識的工具，讓任何人走向生活的最終目標即自我實現和與神一體。這些珍貴的文本是實現這個目標的地圖。
4. 什麼是巴巴吉克利亞瑜伽的目標？
克利亞瑜伽提升生活、增強身體、心靈和靈魂。各種克利亞技巧有助於使修習者變得健康並增強神經系統。所有感官認知都變得敏銳和清晰，且思想和智力都變得極其靈敏。人的潛能得以發展，個人能力逐步增強。但是修行克利亞瑜伽的人不是為了個人利益而發展更多的能量和個人能力，而是為了成為社會中更有用的一員。克利亞瑜伽不是為了出世，而是為了那些希望服務和幫助人類的人。
瑜伽是一種靈性生活的實用科學。克利亞意味著「有覺識的行動。」因此，克利亞瑜伽是通過活動實現，這不僅在每天的瑜伽練習中，還存在於每天的日常生活中。
5. 巴巴吉在「巴巴吉之聲」中談到克利亞瑜伽
「克利亞瑜伽修行並不意味著要與正常生活分離。通過改變視角，我們每天的生活就是動態的瑜伽修行。將生活變成瑜伽修行。克利亞瑜伽的高度實用性使其成為純粹哲學的理想主義與塵世生活的艱難現實主義之間的理性橋梁。它在純粹理論家完全抽象的推測與過度唯物主義者的固執頭腦之間實現了中庸之道。雖然克利亞瑜伽關注的是靈性層面生活，但請不要把所有都認為是理所當然。需要遵循明確的方法，獲得切實的成果，並在生活中體驗。它的範圍很廣泛，旨在實現人類所有能力的綜合發展，目標是將幫助實現人類最大的潛能即明心見性，並建立一個新的世界秩序（即satya yuga），意味著真理世界，這是開悟後的結果。
現代世界充滿了對瑜伽的各種概念，從深刻的神秘主義、理智到荒謬。關於瑜伽和修行有著許多矛盾的觀點和各種幻想，例如將瑜伽和一個瘦弱、半裸且塗滿灰的瑜伽士盤著腿坐在樹下的形象聯繫在一起。同時，在瑜伽修行中發生的超物理現象和修習者在精微層上的經歷受到質疑且被視為魔術。有一點是必須要了解的，即克利亞瑜伽既不是幻想，也不含任何異常的元素。這並不是只適合小眾的瑜伽。也不是那種有些人為了某些特殊目的而練習的奇怪不自然的瑜伽。克利亞瑜伽是經過時間考驗的一種理性方式，為的是實現更充實且幸福的生活，在未來的世界中，每個人自然會遵循這種生活。它不依賴於擁有或獲得任何異常的能力，而是需要發展我們已經擁有但在內部處於休眠狀態的能力。主要實現該目的的工具是所有人共有的工具即心智。
因此，克利亞瑜伽不僅是喜馬拉雅山中的隱士修行的瑜伽，同樣也適用於在不同生活階段中、生活在這個世界、希望為世界服務的人。這不僅限於苦行僧或瑜伽士，而是所有人都可以修習的瑜伽。這需要每個人深入的學習和真誠的實踐。是一門偉大的科學，其結果是源於靈魂的無限幸福和真正和平。
克利亞瑜伽的最小細節也能獲得無盡的傳播，從這一代到下一代，從一個人到另一個。克利亞瑜伽方法的口述和筆錄的一致性是其最偉大的一點。
當涉及成千上萬的人時，人類尚未觸及的方法會具有神聖性、超凡性和純潔性。對方法的純淨度不存在任何的疑問空間。吠陀經（Vedas）和其他經文的至高重要性不僅來自於其中所包含的最珍貴的真理和智慧，而且還來自於它們未曾被人觸及過的純潔性。
6. Svadharma：存在的原因
所有人追求的最終目標都是一樣的，即生活中永久的幸福。有些人選擇通過暫時滿足欲望來尋求幸福。修行者看到了那種快樂的短暫和無常，因此會尋找別的更多的東西。他們知道真正的自我並不尋求欲望的滿足，而是推動他們尋找自己的法（svadharma）：他們的責任，即了解真正自我、忠於真正、了解我們來到這裡要學習和做是什麼。
我們這一世的人生，大多數人會認為理所因當，而不會去深入尋求我們存在的意義。實際上我們在地球上的存在只有一個原因，那就是我們的法。我們在這裡的原因是要了解真正的自己並忠實於自己，了解自己到底是誰，而放下我們不是的東西。所有我們為之做出的一切都是重要的修行。這就是巴巴吉幫助我們做的事情。無論我們是否意識到這一點，其實所有人都在朝著這個方向前進。但是，每天練習、調息法、冥想、哈達瑜伽，不斷地修習和自省，對神的奉愛都會使我們進步更快。
印度教認為存在有四個目標：第一是獲得財富；第二是獲得身體的舒適，情感的幸福和智力的運用；第三是過高道德標準的生活；第四是自我實現。巴巴吉的克裡亞瑜伽可以幫助我們實現這四個目標。因為巴巴吉的克裡亞瑜伽是一種靈性傳統，旨在喚醒我們並引領走上自我實現的道路。同時它也是一門全面的實踐科學，是一種打開心胸的生活方式。這種傳統直接來自瑜伽成就者，即完美的溼婆瑜伽大師。這些技巧起源於這些瑜伽成就者，他們是完美的大師，通常他們都是在家人，而不是出家人，有配偶，且希望能夠幫助人類的幸福，並經常通過科學和醫學的研究和發現來支持人類的發展。
克利亞瑜伽是一門科學的藝術，瑜伽成就者有一句名言：「生活的幸福程度與一個人的自律程度成正比」。克利亞瑜伽中的自律意味著時刻記住我們是誰，放下我們不是的東西，這基於瑜伽成就者們對人類現狀的了解。他們說「我們都是睜著眼睛做夢的人」。世界的存在只是一個表象。生活是一個夢：短暫，且一切都像夢一樣來來去去。所有的時光：獲得經驗和財產、尊重、羞辱，糟糕或美好的時期、人際關係，所有的一切都像夢一樣都會過去。
克利亞瑜伽的自律開始於培養覺識。我們通常所有的行為都是在不知不覺中出於習性、不帶覺識進行的。我們都向外求，而沒有向內尋找我們是誰，而我們就是覺識。當我們清醒時，我們並不覺識到心智的活動即各種起心動念，但我們卻接受這些活動帶來的快樂和痛苦。
當我們完全被外面的世界吸引時，我們並不察覺內在能量的活動（即身體內的生命能量），如果生命能量在體內被阻擋或遇到抵抗，會使得心靈變得焦躁不安、感官受到刺激。這種對生命能量的抵抗是由於心智層面的問題造成的，這種問題會造成體內生理的不平衡。心智的迷惑會引起身體的疾病。
持續覺識到身體、心靈和情緒的活動和行為可以療愈心理和生理疾病。這種覺識的練習可以平息心智並調節生命能量。有覺識的行動是巴巴吉克利亞瑜伽的定義、方法和最終目的。
那什麼是覺識，我們如何實現覺識？每當我們意識的一部分開始成為旁觀者，目睹我們意識的其餘部分參與的行為、感覺或思想時，覺識就在發生。這通常很少發生在日常生活中，因為通常我們的意識完全被注意的對象吸收，諸如我們所看到、聽到、思考或做的事情，有時我們的意識會分散在許多不同的方向。你上一次看著自己看日出，或看著自己看書，或者看著自己生氣，或看著自己做哈達瑜伽體式是什麼時候？我們很少去向內觀察自己做任何事情。
這種覺識對我們有什麼作用？當我們允許自己越來越多地向內觀察時，我們會變得出離，在所有情況下心靈變得平靜，而且在所有情況下，生命能量變得平靜且受控，心靈得以淨化，因此充滿幸福和滿足。簡而言之，這就是克利亞瑜伽的目標。
7. 克利亞瑜伽是整體瑜伽：整合五個存在面的五分支道路
克利亞瑜伽將對生命存在的各個層面起到作用，它可以改變我們的外在本質，我們在生活中所做的事情，甚至改變我們認為自己能做的事情。它極大地發揮每個人的潛力，是充滿活力且變革型的瑜伽。
整體瑜伽是包含存在所有層面和存在所有活動的瑜伽。但是每個人對這種完整性和強大性的體會各不相同，這是因為我們沒有完全融入到同一程度。為了能夠融入，需要在存在的每個層面都做好準備。
身體是神聖的殿堂，表達靈性，雖然身體不是僅僅用於身體和心智層面的生活，但大多數人只是生活在身體和心智生活中，因此需要訓練身體來發展我們的靈性能力，系統地發展靈性存在，逐步彌補身體、情緒體、心智體這些存在面的缺陷和缺點，以獲得智慧和更平衡的情緒。只有當我們存在的每個層面都參與到每天的瑜伽修行時，才有可能實現這一目標。
巴巴吉的克利亞瑜伽是真正的系統性瑜伽，以帶來覺識和自我實現。它建立在144種技巧上，是一條五分支的道路：特定的十八個體式序列；特定的調息法，即特定的呼吸法以引導體內的生命能量和覺識；特定的冥想技巧以發展強大的心智和內部感官、強大的觀想技巧和實現這些觀想的方式；特定的咒語喚醒智慧的潛在能量、覺識和奉愛，即能夠接受到神的恩典的愛和奉獻。奉愛是發展穩定性和堅實基礎的必要元素，使人能夠控制感官，繼而能夠控制由感官引起的小我的欲望和愛憎。
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About Babaji and his mantraOm Kriya Babaji Nama Aum. One cannot begin to speak of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga without mention of Kriya Babaji and his mantra,which has the power to attune one’s pulse to the pulse of Babaji. This mantra can connect the heart of one’s being to the heartbeat of the Universe. It can tune one into the grace of the legendary Himalayan Siddha, Kriya Babaji Nagaraj. Through it, He reveals Himself to His Devotees. Through the techniques of Kriya Yoga he guides the student in their sadhana and indirectly in their life. It is said that the inner guru abiding in the sahasrarais accessible and associated with the disciple’s use of the mantra. The mantra is shakti, a powerful energy. The Guru transmits his shakti through the mantra and the shakti enters the disciple through the mantra. The mantra is a form of the guru. For the guru is a principle of nature, a tattva. And as such, it is force that creates and sustains life and directs the whole of the outer and inner universe. The Guru tattvatranscends the limitations of time and space, for time and space are products of this creative principle and vital power.
The Guru principle existed even before the universe was created, and just like the elements of water, earth, air, fire and ether, it has been apart of creation ever since. The Guru principle is within everyone as the inner Self. When we chant the mantra we are giving respect to this inner guru, paying respect to our very own Self. The Guru is the Self, which is supreme consciousness and supreme bliss.
Explanation of the Mantra OM KRIYA BABAJI NAMA AUM
Omis pranava, the sound which runs through the prana.
Kriyais one of the three kinds of shakti or energy: that of action or kriyashakti; that of will oricchashakti, and that of wisdom, orjnanashakti.
Babajiis the living fountainhead of Kriya Yoga, its Satguru, the form of the Lord as The Father ... the same Babaji who was described by Paramahamsa Yogananda in his 「Autobiography of a Yogi.」
Namais 「salutation」 or 「my name is」
Aumis the sound of the universe inside yourself. Nama Aum is a call or a prayer to That highest Self, the Satguru.
As you become more aware of the Self and the Supreme Self, the hand or at least a finger of the Lord is felt in all circumstances. You begin to get sight of the Lord. You begin to feel your self being directed, being accepted. As you establish a perpetual relation with the guru you become guided in whatever work the Satguru gives to you to do. This is 「Kriya Yoga.」
The Origin of this Kriya Yoga TraditionKriya Babaji is a great yoga master who has lived for centuries in Tibet and in the Indian Himalayas in relative obscurity from the outer world. With the publication of Autobiography of a Yogiin 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda brought Babaji's existence to the attention of a wide audience. According to Yogananda, Babaji has exercised, mostly anonymously, an enormous uplifting influence as He works through countless others.
In fact, Yogananda cites Babaji as the master who, in 1861, initiated Lahiri Mahasaya into the Kriya Yoga techniques that brought him to Self-realization. Lahiri in turn initiated Sri Yukteswar, who subsequently revealed the techniques to Paramahansa Yogananda, who then brought this knowledge to the West. In 1920, he founded the Self-Realization Fellowship, and since his passing in 1952, this organization has faithfully continued to disseminate his teaching through books and a correspondence course.
This tradition of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga flows directly from the ancient Kriya tradition of India, from perfected masters of Siva Yoga, known as the Eighteen Siddhas. Babaji himself had two principle gurus, Agastyar and Boganathar. The book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Traditionprovides the details which Babaji has chosen to reveal about early life with these great Siddhas. This book, as well as another, which was dictated by Babaji in 1952 and 1953, to a disciple known as V.T. Neelakantan, published today with the title The Voice of Babaji: Triology on Kriya Yoga, also reveals the early years of a new mission which Babaji started through his instruments: V.T. Neelakantan and S.A.A. Ramaiah.
Babaji’s Kriya Yoga includes 144 Kriyas or techniques, which form a progressive system, traditionally taught in a series of initiations over many years. This particular five-limbed Yoga system was specifically taught to Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah, directly and in person by Babaji over several months in 1955 near Badrinath, in the Himalayas. The first initiation includes the very important technique of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama, which is quite similar to the technique taught by the SRF today. Paramahamsa Yogananda, spoke of the practice of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama as a means to accelerate the natural progression of Divine Consciousness in human beings.
In 1983,Yogi Ramaiah, or Yogiar, as he was known, began to prepare one of his students, Marshall Govindan, to teach the 144 techniques with a stringent set of conditions to fulfill. M. Govindan had by 1983, already been practicing Kriya Yoga at least 56 hours per week without a break for more than twelve years, an ideal period of which Yogi Ramaiah had often spoken. In addition, in 1981 Govindan completed a year long silence in retreat, alone, in a hut by the seashore in Sri Lanka, engaging in a non-stop practice ofYoga. It took Govindan three more years to fulfill the additional conditions, at which time, Yogiar told him, 「now, you wait.」 Yogiaroften said that once he had brought his students to the feet of the 「Guru,」 his work with them was done.On Christmas Eve, 1988, in a series of profound spiritual experiences, a surprising message was given by Babaji to Govindan to leave his teacher’s ashram and organization and begin initiating others into Kriya Yoga.
Henceforward, Govindan’s life was directed by the continuous and inspirational Light of the Guru, and it focused on showing the path to others. Beginning in 1989, his life moved in this new direction; doors opened automatically, and everything facilitated a new mission. In 1992 Govindan founded Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Ashram in Quebec. In 1997 he founded the lay order of teachers or Acharyas, known as Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas. It is now a tax exempt, educational charity registered in Canada, the USA, India and Sri Lanka. To date, there are more than fifteen teaching acharyas in a dozen countries. The Order has also since 2000 sponsored the research, preservation, transcription, translation and publication of the writings of all of the 18 Siddhas who are at the origin of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga, as well as The Voice of Babaji: Trilogy on Kriya Yoga. Babaji’s Kriya Yoga is a vehicle that can enrich life and can take anyone toward the ultimate goals of life, Self-realization and God realization. These precious texts serve as a necessary roadmap for this vehicle.
What is the goal of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga?Kriya Yoga enriches life. It strengthens the body, mind and soul. Its various practices work to make the practitioner healthy and to strengthen the nervous system.All sense perceptions become keen and clear, the mind and intellect are wonderfully sharpened. Man’s latent faculties are developed and personal power is increased. The kriya yogi however, does not develop more energy and personal power for his own personal interests, but instead to become a more useful member of his or her community. Kriya Yoga is not for renunciants but for those who wish to serve and help humanity itself.
Yogais a practical science of living a spiritual life. Kriya is 「action with awareness.」 Therefore, Kriya Yogahas to be attained in and through activity, not only in so-called yogic practices but in every day living.
Babaji speaks of his Kriya Yoga in the Voice of Babaji:
「Sadhanashould not imply a divorce and severance from normal life. The latter will itself become a dynamic sadhanathrough a shifting of your angle of vision. A proper bhavabecomes the philosopher’s stone to transfer the normal into the yogic. The eminently practical nature of Kriya Yoga renders it the rational bridge between the idealism of pure philosophy and the hard realism of earthly life. Its claim upon modern man is that it strikes a golden mean between the entirely abstract speculations of the mere theorist, and the overdone matter-of-fact attitude and the prosaic hard-headedness of the rank materialist. It is concerned with the transcendental life, yet asks you to take nothing for granted. You are to follow definite methods, arrive at tangible results and experience them in your own life. Its scope is comprehensive. It aims at an integral development of all faculties in man. It is then the precursor and the direct herald of the race of supermen into which present man has to evolve. It has as its aim, the creation of a new man of deep illumination and high vision and the establishment a new world order, a satya yuga, world of truth, as a result of such enlightenment.
The modern world abounds in conceptions of Yoga ranging from the deeply mystic and sensible to the absurd and ludicrous. Conflicting views and wild fanciful notions have clustered around conceptions of Yoga and sadhana. It has become conventional to conjure a picture of an emaciated, half-naked, ash smeared figure with matted locks, seated cross-legged beneath a spreading tree. Through long associations as well as mischievous misrepresentations, such notions have taken deep root. The super-physical phenomena occurring in the practice of Yoga and practitioner’s experiences on subtler planes are viewed with suspicion and regarded as magic. Now this point is to be grasped clearly. Kriya Yoga is neither fanciful nor does it contain anything abnormal. It is not for the favored few. It is not a strange unnatural process practiced by a small minority to gain some strange or extraordinary end. Kriya Yoga is a time-tested, rational way to a fuller and more blessed life, which will naturally be followed by one and all, in the world of tomorrow. It is not dependent upon the possession and exercise of any abnormal faculties. It only requires you to develop faculties that you already possess but which are lying dormant within you. The chief instrument that it utilizes is one that is common to the whole of humanity, namely, the human mind.
Kriya Yoga is thus, not a study or practice meant only for the reclusive in the Himalayan caves. It is not only meant for one who clothes himself in rags, who has the stone as the pillow, who eats what he gets by a mere stretch of his two palms, who weathers the cold and the heat, who remains under the canopy of the sky. Kriya Yoga is meant equally for those who live in their different stations in life, who live in the world and who live to serve the world. It is not only a property of the samnyasin, or the yogi, but is also a universal property. It is a universal subject that requires deep study and sincere practice at the hands of citizens, townsmen, villagers and forest-dwellers. It is the marvelous science whose one fruit is not of discord, but of true peace, born of the soul, born of Infinite Bliss.」
「Kriya Yoga, in even the smallest detail has the unique advantage of innumerable multiplications, from age to age and man to man. The verbatim and literatim sameness of these methods is Kriya Yoga’s greatest point.」
「There is a certain sacredness and superbness and purity about methods that are 『untouched by human hand,』 when it has to deal with millions. There remains no room for discussion or the smallest doubt about the purity of the methods. The highest importance of the Vedas and scriptures arises not only from the most invaluable truth and wisdom contained therein, but from the guarantee that they carry a purity of being 『untouched by human hand.』」
Svadharma: our reason for livingThe ultimate goal of all of us is the same thing. What 「seekers」 are most aspiring for in life is permanent happiness. Non-seekers are looking for that happiness by temporarily satisfying desires. Seekers see through that temporary happiness and are looking for something else, something more. They know that their dissatisfaction with the fulfillment of desire comes from their inner being, that their inner being is turning on the pressure and pushing them towards their svadharma:their duty, their responsibility 「to know thy self,」 「to be true to the Self,」 「to know what they came to learn and to do.」
We are born into this life and most of us take it for granted that we are here never delving very deeply into the meaning of our existence. Yoga says that there is one single reason that we are on this earth and that is our svadharma. And oursvadharma is not really to be happy. The reason we are here is to know our self and to be true to our self. To know who we really are and to let go of what we are not. Therefore whatever we can do to acquire the knowledge of who we are and let go of what we are not, is important sadhana. That is what Babaji’s Kriya Yoga is assisting us in doing.It issaid that we are all progressing in that direction whether we are conscious of it or not. However with a daily sadhana, pranayama, meditation, Hatha yoga, with constant practice, self study and devotion to the Lord we will progress more rapidly.
According to Hinduism there are four goals of human purpose: first,to obtain wealth, second, toobtain pleasurein physical comfort, emotional well-being and intellectual stimulation, third, tolive a moral life, and fourth, self-realization orliberation. Babaji’s KriyaYoga can assist us in all these four goals. For Babaji’s Kriya Yoga is a spiritual tradition designed to wake us up and lead us on this path of self-realization. But it is also a comprehensive practical discipline and an open-hearted approach to live life fully. This tradition flows directly from the siddhas, the perfected masters of Siva Yoga. The techniques were developed by siddhas, perfected masters who were often householders, not renunciants. They had spouses and were socially conscious wanting the well-fare of humanity and often supported humanity with scientific and medical discoveries.
The Siddhas who developed this scientific art of Kriya Yoga have a famous saying: 「the amount of happiness in life is proportional to one’s discipline.」 Discipline in the context of Kriya Yoga, is doing what is required to remember who we are and to let go of what we are not.It is based upon thesiddhasdiagnosis of our human condition. They say that 「we are dreaming with our eyes open.」 The world appearance only seems to be existent. Life is a dream, it is transient, and everything comes and goes like dreams: All of years of: acquiring experiences, possessions, respect, humiliation, bad times, wonderful times, relationships... all come and go like dreams.
Furthermore, Kriya discipline begins with the cultivation of awareness. But, most of what we do normally is done unconsciously, out of habit, without awareness. When we are awake to the world we are not awake to who we are, which is Awareness itself. When we are awake to the world we are not aware of the movement of our thoughts through consciousness. But, we accept the pleasure and pain they bring.
When we are awake to the world we are not aware of the movement of prana (the bioplasm or vital life energy in the body), but the mind gets agitated and the senses get stirred up and the mind gets agitated only when and if the prana becomes blocked or resisted in the body. The agitation and resistance of the life forces is due to mental confusion and this confusion can cause disturbances in the metabolism in the body. Mental confusion can cause foods to turn into poisons. Physical disease can occur.
Continual awareness of the activity and actions of the body, mind, and emotions can remedy mental and physical disorders.This practice of awareness can calm the mind and regulate the prana. 「Action with awareness」 is the definition, the vehicle and the destination of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga.
Okay, so what is Awareness and how do we attain it?Awareness occurs whenever part of our consciousness is standing apart and witnessing what the rest of our consciousness is involved in doing, feeling, or thinking. This rarely occurs in the ordinary course of life, because usually we allow our consciousness to be absorbed by objects of attention, such as what we are seeing, hearing, and thinking or doing or we allow our consciousness to be dispersed in many different directions. When was the last time you watched yourself watch a sunrise or watched yourself read a book or watched yourself become angry or watched yourself do a Hatha Yoga posture? Rarely do we go inward to watch ourselves do anything.
And what does this sense of awareness do for us?As we allow ourselves to rest inwardly more and more, we become detached, so that the mind becomes calm in all situations and the prana becomes calm and regulated in all situations and the mind becomes purified and happiness and contentment arises in the heart. This is the goal of Kriya Yoga in a nutshell.
Kriya Yoga is an integral Yoga: a five-fold path for integrating the five bodiesKriya Yoga will work on all parts of your being, and it can literally change your outer nature. It can change what you are doing in life and what you thought you were even capable of doing. It develops your potential. It is dynamic and transformational Yoga.
An integral Yoga is one which comprises all parts of the being and all the activities of the being. But, what we find is that the practices for one person will not be as powerful or as integral as the same practices are for another person. This is because we are not all integrated to the same extent.To be integrated we have to prepare all levels of our being.
The body is a temple of divinity. It expresses the Spirit. It is not only for living a physical and mental life. But most of us are just living physical/mental lives, so we have to educate our body to develop our spiritual faculties. We must systematically develop our spiritual being as we remedy our physical, vital, mental, and emotional defects and shortcomings to acquire intellectual abilities and a more balanced emotional nature. This is possible only when all levels of our being participates in a regular daily Yoga practice.
Babaji’s Kriya Yoga is a genuine system to bring about awareness and Self-realization. It is founded in a set of 144 techniques. It is a five-fold path of asana, a specific series of eighteen asana; specific pranayamtechniques, specific techniques of breathing, which directs prana and consciousness in the body; specific dhyanaor meditation techniques to develop strong mind and inner senses, strong visualization skills and a means of actualizing those visualizations; specific mantrasto awaken the intellect to its potential energy and consciousness and bhakti,love and devotion to invoke the 「grace of God.」 Bhaktiis required to develop the steadfastness and firm ground necessary for one to control the senses in such a way as to control the ego desires and aversions that arise through them.
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