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It was master Lahiri Mahasaya who introduced Kriya Yoga to the modern world during his lifetime in the nineteenth century, yet Kriya Yoga is, according to some scriptures, much older than that. It would appear that the Bhagavad-Gita mentions a Kriya Yogi technique in a stanza that states:
"That meditation expert becomes eternally free who, seeking the Supreme Goal (Samahdi), is able to withdraw from external phenomena by fixing his gaze within the mid-spot of the eyebrows and by neutralizing the event currents of prana and apana within the nostrils and lungs; and to control his sensory mind and intellect; and to banish desire, fear and anger."
The Bhagaved-Gita is rumored to have been written more than 3000 years ago.
Paramahansa Yogananda writes in his "Autobiography of a Yogi" that Master Mahasaya received his teaching directly from Babaji, the Guru of all gurus. It is rumored that Babaji appears regularly among accomplished master yogis and advanced spiritual entities and that he taught the Christ and His disciples.
Why do I write that these facts "seem to be" and are "rumored to"? The answer is simple: there is absolutely no scientific proof whatsoever, not a shred of evidence to back up this information. Yet it is odd that not a single master or illuminated soul ever contradicted or denied this information.
Moreover, any accomplished master, and I mean by that one that has received the blessing of Samahdi, will tell you that you can find out for yourself by going into Samahdi where you will know all knowledge, see all things and be everywhere simultaneously.
To try and explain what happens to a soul when he reaches a state of Samahdi, one would have to listen to the story of that raindrop who fell into the ocean, suddenly realizing that he was no longer a raindrop, but the ocean itself.
Kriya Yoga is but one of many yoga techniques that prepare the candidate for this experience and it is said to be the ultimate liberation from suffering and the consequences of maya (illusion). The souls who managed to attain Samahdi are definitively freed from the bondage of kharma, the law of action and reaction or consequence.
Joe is webmaster for mahasaya.com and yogi4u.com where he pursues his passion for spiritual work, self-growth and self-realization. He is happy to make available his experience and 30 years of intense personal research, meditations and in-depth questioning around the three subjects mentioned hereabove and strives to create a network of like minded adepts.
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