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Date Posted: 14:22:31 01/19/06 Thu
Author: hux - 19 Nov 2005
Subject: Re: A few questions
In reply to: Vijay - 18 Nov 2005 's message, "Re: A few questions" on 14:21:29 01/19/06 Thu


Quote: { My best bet to answer all your questions is: Just trust guruji and read over and over again all the lessons he had written with his own hands keeping his all walks of disciples in the mind. }

Don't get me wrong. If I didn't trust Yogananda I wouldn't be following his path. But the truth is that even while the lessons are quite useful, they simply do not explain everything. And sometimes the monastics cannot either.
(By the way, the lessons were not completely written by Yogananda, they were compiled by someone else (quite possibly Dhirananda) mostly from Yogagananda's classes and lectures. He did reviewed them from time to time making corrections.

Quote: { Other stories that we read and/or come across, they are very good inspirational and informative. They will help cover the holes of our minds. }

I am not sure I understand your suggestion, particularly keeping in mind what you have just said a moment ago.

Quote: { For instance, If guruji says we don't need more than 108 kriyas and Kechari mudra, then it is so. He must have had right reason to say it. He takes care if we need them based on our karma. Who else can carry the load of so many disciples otherthan the one that was ordained by God (God himself). }

This is not the case. Yogananda himself said in his autobiography:

" One thousand Kriya practiced in eight hours gives the yogi, in one day, the equivalent of one thousand years of natural evolution: 365,000 years of evolution in one year. In three years, a Kriya Yogi can thus accomplish by intelligent self-effort the same result which nature brings to pass in a million years. The Kriya short cut, of course, can be taken only by deeply developed yogis. With the guidance of a guru, such yogis have carefully prepared their bodies and brains to receive the power created by intensive practice."

For me it seems obvious that if he really had considered that kriyabans should not practice more than 108 kriyas, he wouldn't have talked about one thousand kriyas in a book accesible to everybody. He did say that the beginner must start with 14 to 28, twice daily, but not that the limit was 108.

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