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Purna Kriya Yoga |
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Helping factors and Parabastha
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Kriya with Shibendu Lahiri
Experiences are just milestones
toward the emptiness, the existence, the energy, the supreme
intelligence. An enlightened person is essentially an empty person with
a tremendous energy of understanding, but without the excess baggage of
a particular belief system which is the source of all cultism and
confusion, all sectarian activities and seductive forces. Kriya Yoga is
the knowledge for liberation and not the knowledge for power, success
and gratification. Freedom from the stranglehold of mind and its
experiences is the greatest enlightenment. Mind and experiences are
valid only in matters mundane and technical. When Buddha was asked –
what happens after enlightenment? He replied – nothing! But his
followers felt that this truth cannot be organised. So they said – a
beautiful ecstatic state and this and that. And thus they exploited the
basic greed of human mind to propagate “Buddhism”. Buddha was not
Buddhist; but his followers, of course, are! Even a wrong step towards
the divine is not wasted, provided it is in the right direction i.e. the
direction of no-egotrip in any form. Kriya Yoga is something that you
do, but meditation is something that you are. Doing meditation is
denying the spontaneous meditative process. Kriya is done to be
available to meditation as Kriya sets you free from the protective
mechanism of the mind. True Kriyas, which blast your mind, can be learnt
from him who has experienced that blast without an experiencer. The best
example of this process is deep sleep. When you wake up; you are
refreshed, renewed and rejuvenated. You feel you were perhaps very
happy, but there was no experiencer of that happiness. Lahiri
Mahashay’s message was not he, nor his miracles, nor his experiences.
These are of no consequences so far as your pain and suffering is
concerned. His message was you. Look at yourself, at the ingredients and
investments of your “youness”, your ambitions and frustrations.
Start a centripetal journey into insight through pondering, practice and
perception of the wholeness. (Swadhyaya, Tapas and Ishvarapranidhan).
Help in dispelling the dark forces trying to dilute and destroy the
energy which is essential in understanding the Lahiri process. Be
life-oriented – not book-oriented, not quotation-oriented nor
campaign-oriented.
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