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Date Posted: 03:10:44 04/25/04 Sun
Author: Sundarar - 1 Apr 2004
Subject: 'completing' the kriyas

Friends

I have heard followers of Shibendu Lahiri occasionally mentioning finishing kriyas. It is my understanding when certain numbers of kriyas are completed, one is promoted on to the next kriya. I guesstimate the sadhana may take 12 years at this pace, which is reputedly the length of Lahiri Mahasaya's kriya career.

Swami Sivananda and Swami Rama write about making a puruscharana of a certain mantra to get the siddhi of the mantra. For instance, to get the siddhi of gayatri one is supposed to repeat it 10 hours a day for 16 months or something. This is in Swami Sivananda's "Japa Yoga" book. It's all about numbers. Once the number is finished you go on to another mantra.

So likewise I understand once a goodly number of first kriya is completed, one shifts most of his time to the second with Shibendu. With Yogananda the focus is always the 1st.

Has anyone got any more information on this? Is this the way Lahiri approached kriya? Anyone from other lineages want to comment?

Sundarar

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Replies:

Re: 'completing' the kriyas -- knonymous - 1 Apr 2004, 03:11:14 04/25/04 Sun
How to chant 100 Million mantras in just one second! -- ketch - 1 Apr 2004, 03:12:51 04/25/04 Sun
- Re: How to chant 100 Million mantras in just one second! -- norman - 1 Apr 2004, 03:13:22 04/25/04 Sun
- Re: How to chant 100 Million mantras in just one second! -- username - 1 Apr 2004, 03:14:19 04/25/04 Sun
Re: 'completing' the kriyas -- Hendrik - 1 Apr 2004, 03:16:59 04/25/04 Sun
- Re: 'completing' the kriyas -- knonymous - 2 Apr 2004, 03:17:35 04/25/04 Sun
  - Re: 'completing' the kriyas -- Hendrik - 2 Apr 2004, 03:19:00 04/25/04 Sun
    - Re: 'completing' the kriyas -- knonymous - 2 Apr 2004, 03:19:55 04/25/04 Sun
      - Re: 'completing' the kriyas -- Hendrik - 2 Apr 2004, 03:20:36 04/25/04 Sun
        Re: 'completing' the kriyas -- knonymous - 3 Apr 2004, 03:21:06 04/25/04 Sun
        Re: 'completing' the kriyas -- Hendrik - 3 Apr 2004, 03:21:47 04/25/04 Sun
        Re: 'completing' the kriyas -- knonymous - 4 Apr 2004, 03:22:32 04/25/04 Sun
Re: 'completing' the kriyas -- Sundarar - 4 Apr 2004, 03:23:03 04/25/04 Sun

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