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Kriya Yoga Science

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Kriya Yoga is a scientific breath technique that accelerates spiritual evolution far beyond nature's million-year pace.

  1. Kriya works through breath, not beliefIt is described as a psychophysiological method that decarbonizes the blood and redirects life force around the six spinal centers.
  2. Three years of Kriya against a million of natureOne thousand Kriya in eight hours is said to equal a thousand years of natural evolution, so three years accomplish what nature needs a million years to do.
  3. Slow breath is long life and deep attentionThe monkey breathes 32 times a minute, man 18, the 300-year tortoise only four, and the sleeping man unknowingly performs the yogic rite.
Executive Summary AI
  • The chapter explains that Kriya Yoga reached modern India through Lahiri Mahasaya, and that the Sanskrit root Kri, to do or act, ties it to karma, so Kriya means union with the infinite through action.
  • The narrator describes Kriya as a simple psychophysiological method that decarbonizes the blood and recharges it with oxygen, whose atoms are transmuted into life currents that rejuvenate the brain and spinal centers and arrest tissue decay.
  • Its lineage is traced back through Babaji, who rediscovered the lost technique and gave it to Lahiri Mahasaya in the 19th century as a revival of the science Krishna gave Arjun and Patanjali later recorded.
  • The arithmetic of the shortcut is stated plainly: one thousand Kriya practiced in eight hours equals one thousand years of natural evolution, three hundred and sixty-five thousand years in one year, so three years match a million years of nature.
  • Breath rate is offered as evidence, with the restless monkey breathing 32 times a minute against man's average of 18 and the tortoise, who may live 300 years, breathing only four, before the chapter closes with Kriya as the airplane route to the infinite.
Key Quote
“The actual technique must be learned from a Kriyaban or Kriya Yogi.”
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Key Quote
“The advanced yogi transmutes his cells into pure energy.”
— Narrator
Key Quote
“One thousand Kriya practiced in eight hours gives the yogi in one day the equivalent of one thousand years of natural evolution.”
— Narrator

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0:00 CHAPTER XXVI. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI.
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0:13 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI by Paramhans Yoganand.
0:17 THE SCIENCE OF KRIYA YOG
0:19 The science of Kriya Yoga became widely known in modern India through the instrumentality of Lahiri Mahasaya,
0:25 my guru's guru. The Sanskrit root of Kriya is Kri, to do, to act and react. The same root is
0:34 found in the word Karma, the natural principle of cause and effect. Kriya Yoga is thus union,
0:41 yoga with the infinite, through a certain action or rite.
0:48 A yogi who faithfully follows its technique is gradually freed from karma or the universal chain of causation.
0:52 Because of certain ancient yogic injunctions,
0:55 I cannot give a full explanation of Kriya Yoga
0:57 in the pages of a book intended for the general public.
1:01 The actual technique must be learned from a Kriyaban or Kriya Yogi. Here a broad reference
1:08 massifies. Kriya Yoga is a simple psychophysiological method by which the human blood is decarbonized
1:16 and recharged with oxygen. The atoms of this extra oxygen are transmuted into life currents
1:22 to rejuvenate the brain and spinal centers.
1:27 By stopping the accumulation of venous blood,
1:31 the yogi is able to lessen or prevent the decay of tissues.
1:35 The advanced yogi transmutes his cells into pure energy.
1:38 Elijah, Jesus, Kabir and other prophets were past masters in the use of Kriya for a similar technique
1:42 by which they caused their bodies to dematerialize at will.
1:46 Kriya is an ancient science. Lahiri Mahasaya received it from his guru, Babaji, who rediscovered
1:53 and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the dark ages. The Kriya Yoga which I
1:58 am giving to the world through you in this 19th century, Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya,
2:04 is a revival of the same science which Krishna
2:07 gave millenniums ago to Arjun and which was later known to Patanjali and to Christ, Saint
2:13 John, Saint Paul and other disciples. Kriya Yoga is referred to by Krishna, India's greatest
2:20 prophet, in a stanza of the Bhagavad Gita, offering inhaling breath into the outgoing breath
2:26 and offering the outgoing breath into the inhaling breath.
2:31 The yogi neutralizes both these breaths.
2:34 He thus releases the life force from the heart
2:36 and brings it under his control.
2:39 The interpretation is,
2:41 the yogi arrests decay in the body by an addition of life force
2:45 and arrests the mutation of growth in the body by a pan, eliminating current.
2:51 Thus neutralizing decay and growth by quieting the heart, the yogi learns life control.
2:57 Krishna also relates that it was he, in a former incarnation,
3:01 who communicated the indestructible yoga to an ancient illuminato,
3:14 Vivasvat, who gave it to it to mano the great legislator he in turn instructed ikshuku the father of india's solar warrior dynasty passing thus from one to another the royal yoga was guarded by the rishis until the coming of the materialistic ages then due to priestly secrecy and man's indifference, the sacred

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