Kriya
Yoga is twice referred to by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. One stanza
reads: “Offering the inhaling breath into the exhaling breath and offering the
exhaling breath into the inhaling breath, the yogi neutralizes both breaths;
thus he releases prana from the heart and brings life force under his control.”
The interpretation is: “The yogi arrests decay in the body by securing an
additional supply of prana (life force) through quieting the action of the
lungs and heart; he also arrests mutations of growth in the body by control of
apana (eliminating current). Thus neutralizing decay and growth, the yogi
learns life-force control.”
““The Kriya Yoga that I am giving to the
world through you in this nineteenth century,” Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya, “is
a revival of the same science that Krishna gave millenniums ago to Arjuna; and
that was later known to Patanjali and Christ, and to St. John, St. Paul, and
other disciples.”
—
Paramahansa Yogananda,
Autobiography of a Yogi
Autobiography of a Yogi
No comments:
Post a Comment