Kriya yoga is among the shortest, quickest and most scientific way to attain your goal of self-mastery and state of deathlessness but it is neither a religion nor sect.
There are four major techniques in kriya yoga. You forget your ego and body sense and get extreme super- consciousness and cosmic consciousness.
Immediately you can change your life force into radiant all-accomplishing divine force which in turn hastens your physical, mental and intellectual uplift.
The second technique is panacea for all diseases. It gives you a healthy and lustrous body. It slows the ageing process.
By the third technique you can offer your whole system to God. Your hands are not your hands. They are the hands of God.
Your heart is not your heart, it belongs to God. God is putting breath in you, so that your whole system is acting.
We have two nostrils. So long as the breath will not come with equal pressure from both the nostrils, our spiritual field will not be cultivated.
We have to cultivate our own spiritual field, which is our own body. All our anger, pride and insincerity centres are in the right lobe, and our speech centre is in the left side of the brain.
Also we have another part called pons. Above and behind pons is the mid-brain; where the aggregated balance sheets of our lives are stored.
So, in a moment we can become bewildered and furious. By the practice of kriya yoga our thoughts become balanced. By the help of the fourth technique we will be able to feel that only the power of God is activating us.
We can get extreme calmness. We hear the mantras. Anybody, who has been initiated in the Rama mantra, need not chant Rama, Rama, Rama.
In kriya yoga, automatically he can hear the Rama mantra as if from a distance. He will even feel divine vibrations in his whole body and see divine light.
Also in his fontanelle he will feel the sensation of floating, swaying and rocking. By the help of this, all his negative and bad qualities will disappear; he will feel that the power of God is always with him.
The Kenopanishad says, what speech cannot reveal but which reveals the speech, know that alone is God. What mind cannot comprehend, but what cognises mind, know that alone is God.
It is only the power of God, which is pulling breath from the seventh junction of every being. The Bhagavad Gita says: If one can fix prana shakti with help of breath at the midpoint of eyebrows (pituitary), he can perceive the self-effulgent divine self.
So long as your mind is not fixed at the point where God is pulling inhalation and does not calmly seek Him there, your spiritual achievement is completely nil.
You require material prosperity and sense pleasures. Along with these, you should also start meditating.
Meditation means the mind is free from worldly objects. You are in knowledge, consciousness and supercons-ciousness.
In the Bible it is written: “Be still and know that you are God”. By the practice of kriya yoga meditation you can still your mind and feel the living presence of God.
Excerpts from a talk given in 1986 by Paramahamsa Hariharananda.