Kannada Swami Param Hamsa Yoganand Pdf

The techniques of Kriya Yoga are explained in the second and in the third. Form of Kriya taught by Swami Hariharananda. First we discuss Lahiri Mahasaya's Kriya. For more information on Kriya Techniques, Supportive Instruction, Training, Theory and Practice please review.

The name babaji simply means “revered father.” Though the great master’s birth name and date are unknown, his subtle spiritual influence is felt throughout the world. Paramhansa Yogananda’s first introduced the world to this mysterious master. Still alive and residing in the Himalayas for centuries or even thousands of years, Babaji has been a guide for great spiritual teachers carry out their special dispensations. For this reason he is called a mahavatar, a great incarnation of God. It was Babaji, too, who re-introduced the ancient science of Kriya Yoga, lost during the dark ages due to, as Paramhansa Yogananda said, “priestly secrecy and man’s indifference.” Saints of East and West.

“Babaji is well aware of the trend of modern times,” Yogananda wrote, ”especially of the influence and complexities of Western civilization, and realizes the necessity of spreading the self-liberations of yoga equally in the West and in the East.” During Yogananda’s only recorded meeting with the great sage, Babaji told him, “You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West. Long ago I met your guru Yukteswar at a Kumbha Mela; I told him then I would send you to him for training.” Through Yogananda, the technique of Kriya Yoga and the teachings of yoga have been shared with millions in the West. The peerless master moves with his group from place to place in the mountains. His small band contains two highly advanced American disciples. After Babaji has been in one locality for some time, he says: “Dera danda uthao.” (“Let us lift our camp and staff.”) He carries a symbolic danda (bamboo staff). His words are the signal for moving with his group instantaneously to another place.

He does not always employ this method of astral travel; sometimes he goes on foot from peak to peak. Babaji can be seen or recognized by others only when he so desires.

He is known to have appeared in many slightly different forms to various devotees — sometimes without beard and moustache, and sometimes with them. As his undecaying body requires no food, the master seldom eats. As a social courtesy to visiting disciples, he occasionally accepts fruits, or rice cooked in milk and clarified butter. Two amazing incidents of Babaji’s life are known to me Swami Kebalananda in Autobiography of a Yogi. Though he has never appeared openly, Babaji answers prayers from devotees around the world. This story and two others are told in by Swami Kriyananda. Pedro Gonzales Milan told me of the first time he had read the Autobiography of a Yogi.

While reading, he came to the passage that read, “Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.” He put the book down, moved to his depths. “If these words be true,” he thought, “I must prove them so!

Babaji, heed the cry of my heart: Come to me!” “Instantly,” he told me, “the room was filled with a glorious light and my heart, with bliss.” Swami Kriyananda The New Path. Pedro Gonzales Milan told me of the first time he had read the Autobiography of a Yogi.

While reading, he came to the passage that read, “Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.” He put the book down, moved to his depths. Teamspeak icons police. “If these words be true,” he thought, “I must prove them so! Babaji, heed the cry of my heart: Come to me!” “Instantly,” he told me, “the room was filled with a glorious light and my heart, with bliss.” Swami Kriyananda The New Path. I, too, have experienced Babaji’s blessings on occasions when I have prayed to him. In 1960, on my second visit to India, I wanted to find a place of seclusion for a few days before returning to Calcutta to resume my activities in our society there. I had no idea where to go, however. Part of my difficulty was that Indians often found a Western swami a novelty.