Indian Newslink 15th April 2018 Digital Edition

APRIL 15, 2018
22 Baisakhi & New Year Special
Spiritual Leader to demonstrate practice of Kriya Yoga
Venkat Raman
venkat@indiannewslink.co.nz
Arenowned Spiritual
Leader and a Master
in the practice of Kriya
Yoga will demonstrate this
important posture in Auckland
later this month.
Paramahamsa Prajnanananda,
Head of Kriya Yoga International
will address enthusiasts at
Blockhouse Bay Boat Club located
at Endeavour Street, Blockhouse
Bay in Auckland on Friday, April
27, 2018 from 7 pm to 830 pm.
He will conduct Initiation and
Technique Training on Saturday,
April 28 and Sunday, April 29, 2018
at Shirdi Saibaba Sansthan located
at 12 Princes Street in Onehunga.
Those keen to attend the training
programme should register their
names through phone 021-335 137;
Email: hello@kriya.org.nz; Website:
www.kriya.org.nz; Facebook:
KriyaYogaNZ
He will also conduct a Non-Residential
Retreat from Sunday, April
29 to Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at
Shirdi Saibaba Sansthan located at
12 Princes Street in Onehunga.
The daily Retreat will be held
from 8 am to 5 pm.
Organisers said that Initiation
is essential to participate in the
Non-Residential Retreat.
They described Prajnanananda
as “A God-realised Yogi in the
unbroken lineage of Kriya Masters
in India and in his pre-monastic
life.
“He was previously an academic,
employed as Professor of Economics.
His teachings are non-sectarian
Paramahamsa Prajnanananda (From Facebook)
and harmoniously blend the great
teachings of the Orient and the
Occident,” they said.
About Kriya Yoga
Yoga symbolises the union of the
Individual Self with the Universal
Self.
Brought to the West by Paramahamsa
Yogananda’s spiritual
classic, “Autobiography of a Yogi,”
Kriya Yoga is an ancient and
scientific system of meditation
to achieve this union. Regular
practice of Kriya Yoga leads to
improved health, peace and
overall wellbeing. It also deepens
one’s spiritual awareness and
connection with all beings in the
universe.
Kriya Yoga has been described
by its practitioners as the
ancient Yoga system revived in
modern times by Mahavatar
Babaji through his disciple Lahiri
Mahasaya (1861).
According to Paramahamsa
Yogananda, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali,
contain a description of Kriya
Yoga – “Liberation can be attained
by that pranayama which is accomplished
by disjoining the course of
inspiration and expiration.”
The Yoga System
The Kriya yoga system consists of
a number of levels of Pranayama,
Mantra and Mudra, based on the
techniques intended to rapidly
accelerate spiritual development
and engender a profound state of
tranquility and God-Communion.
Yogananda attributes his description
of Kriya Yoga to his lineage
of gurus, Yukteswar Giri, Lahiri
Mahasaya, and Mahavatar Babaji.
The latter is reported to have
introduced the concept as essentially
identical to the Raja Yoga of Patanjali
and the concept of Yoga as described
in the Bhagavad Gita.
Traditionally exclusive
Kriya Yoga, as taught by Lahiri
Mahasaya, is traditionally exclusively
learned via the Guru-disciple
relationship and the initiation
consists of a secret ceremony.
As Yogananda describes Kriya Yoga,
“The Kriya Yogi mentally directs
his life energy to revolve, upward
and downward, around the six
spinal centers (medullary, cervical,
dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal
plexuses) which correspond to the
twelve astral signs of the zodiac,
the symbolic Cosmic Man. One
half-minute of revolution of energy
around the sensitive spinal cord of
man effects subtle progress in his
evolution; that half-minute of Kriya
equals one year of natural spiritual
unfoldment.”
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