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Date Posted: 05:01:06 12/06/03 Sat
Author: a kriya yogi - 27 Oct 2003
Subject: Re: Who Are You Following? Continued....
In reply to: ketch - 27 Oct 2003 's message, "Re: Who Are You Following? Continued...." on 05:00:23 12/06/03 Sat

Thank you. I agree with some of what you say, except for your statement as 'objectively verifiable facts' regarding 'minor disciples'.

Discipleship is certainly a spiritual matter, the most spiritual and intimate, in my opinion. And your statement:
"Spiritual matters cannot be verified by means of the "objective proof" which you ask about."

would seem to contradict your attempt to dismiss disciples as minor simply because they spent fewer years with the Master.

"On the issue of why I practice Kriya Yoga the answer is I would imagine the same for all of us. Because we believe that it will take us to the highest spiritual consciousness, and that we will eventually gain the ultimate reward."

This surprises me, if most people really think this way. I STARTED practicing it because, like you, I believed that it could take me to the highest spiritual consciousness. This was after reading about it in Autobiography of a Yogi.

Now, I practice Kriya Yoga because I have seen results in myself that have proven to my satisfaction that Kriya Yoga is a technique that really, really works.

But if I had done Kriya for as many years as I have, and not received any results, I might have a very hard time continuing my practiced based just on the promise that after many more years, I would "eventually gain the ultimate reward." Now that would take alot of faith in one's Guru. Which in itself is very admirable. I'm not disrespecting your answer- just wondering if others here feel the same way.

"It would of depend on the circumstances and who the others were and what I thought of them. If for example someone whom I genuinely believed was a yogi of high attainment said to me that something I had experienced was simply imagination then I would consider that a possibility."

Good answer. If an advanced yogi told me that the results I've been experiencing in Kriya were imaginary, then I might consider the possiblility. But that hasn't happened, in fact just the opposite.

I hope you can see why I believe what I do. It is based on my own experience of Kriya, and what it has done for me.

And thank you for your answers, Ketch.

I'm also curious what others here think. Especially to my first question:

Why do you practice Kriya Yoga?

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