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Date Posted: 15:07:48 02/20/06 Mon
Author: ketch - 10 Jan 2006
Subject: Re: ayp site
In reply to: general tom - 10 Jan 2006 's message, "Re: ayp site" on 15:06:24 02/20/06 Mon


the lessons are very well written, and deal only with powerful techniques. A person who is short of understanding (and only repeats what he heard) could not possibly write lessons like that.

Of course they could. All they would have to do is copy and paste from the writings of genuine yogi's, or rewrite it in their own words.

Here's the challenge: where, specifically, do the lessons come up short?
Can you identify anything that is poor or inappropriate?
In other words, can you give SUBSTANCE to your criticism?


I thought I had already given some examples - such as his acceptance of Mahesh as a great yogi (I hope no one reading here believes that jumping up and down on a mattress pretending you are flying has anything to do with real yoga) and his acceptance of Norman Paulsen's rainbow theory.

I have not read every lesson thoroughly since a brief glance was enough for me, but if you want some more examples here are some. Since this is a Kriya Yoga board and that is what we all know best lets look at some of the things he writes about Kriya:

"The number of versions of spinal breathing is limited only by the
imagination. The essential ingredient in all of them is the brow to
perineum route of attention with slow breathing. 90%-plus of the
results come from that. It is that simple. It is easy to make it
complicated, and risk watering down the results by adding chakra
imagery, sounds, colors, mantras, etc. Any or all of those additions
don't contribute much."

From lesson 206.

Anyone who knows higher kriya would know that in that they are pranayama with additions of mantra etc. It seems that Lahiri Mahasaya did believe that a great deal could be added to the basic pranayama if done properly.

Or how about this little gem:

At the end of the sushumna
are the infinite realms of bright white light. They are seen as a
bright star in the beginning. The colors ringed around the star are
the inside of the sushumna. You are looking out from the inside, so
you are seeing the inside of the sushumna in your body, and the end
of the sushumna off in the distance, which is the star. You are
looking through the tunnel of the sushumna, seeing "the light at the
end of the tunnel," as they say. Inside the tunnel, we are literally
a rainbow of light, beginning with dark red at the bottom and ending
with blue and violet at the top.

Lesson 92

"we are literally
a rainbow of light, beginning with dark red at the bottom and ending
with blue and violet at the top"

Oh really? In my opinion this is just New Age spin. It is not in accordance with any scripture or the descriptions of true yogi's. He is simply repeating what he has read somewhere, not speaking from any genuine experience.

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