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Date Posted: 04:28:43 04/17/04 Sat
Author: Sundarar - 26 Mar 2004
Subject: Re: essentials for rapid progress in kriya
In reply to: Anonymous - 25 Mar 2004 's message, "Re: essentials for rapid progress in kriya" on 04:28:07 04/17/04 Sat

Friends

Good replies to my post...You are right Lahiri was many sided and in the advanced stages all yogas merge into one. I used to center on a lot of traditional bakti practices and now years later I am 1st and foremost a kriyaban.
Carl Jung used to say he wasn't interested in finding a religion, he was trying to see what spiritual currents (rather archetypes) were running naturally within him. I am not repressed that kriyabans need to be centered on silence, paravasta or the Void. Some as Kebalananda were centered in Vedanta, Pranabananda was deep with tantra, and Yukteswar with samkhya and astrology. Master Yogananda was a devotional one, particularly with divine mother.
Sivananda and Vivekananda were votaries of a balance of the 4 yogas, though they said each person will usually focus on one more than the others. It is my guess that most of us on this board focus on kriya (kundalini) yoga.

I was under the impression that in most kriya lines people do not do puja, chanting or have an ishta such as Kali or Jesus. Lahiri said he did no puja and all the Gods were inside him. He said he worshipped Sthirattva (or silence). Of course until one has pratyahara these things are in the imagination. When I started to get pratyahara the personal gods dropped off.

pranams

Sundarar

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