Category: Kriya Yoga
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Self-Inquiry in Six Steps: Discovering I AM
In the deepest meditation, everything becomes very quiet. There is no longer any identification, no separation, no duality. The personal recedes into the background, and what remains is an open, boundless presence. To make this experience accessible and open to inquiry, my Guruji recently shared this meditation with us over the past weeks. Not as a theory,…
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Traveling to My Guru: Kriya Yoga and Self Realization
In December, I will travel to visit my spiritual teacher, my Guru, Yogi Guruji Prakash Shankar Vyas. For more than twenty years I have meditated under his guidance, yet it has been far too long since I last met him in person. He lives far away in Australia, literally on the other side of the…
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My first yoga book
For my 20th birthday I received a second-hand book from my brother. “Here.” He said. “Just read this. That’s something for you.” I had never done yoga or meditated before and this was the first yoga book I ever read. When I read it I loved it. Although I didn’t understand everything, when I read…
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Kriya Soldier
My experiences in my Kriya meditations are difficult to describe. In another piece on this website I described the meditative experience as silence. Once you have learned in meditation how to soothe the mind, you are one with the silence. Patanjali describes this in the Eightfold Path of Yoga as withdrawing the senses, followed by…
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Renounce
In 2004 I made a trip through India with my then girlfriend. We wanted to go to Kashmir in North India and then travel back to settle down in Varanasi where my Guruji lived. This itinerary did not work. On the way to Kashmir I became altitude sick. Not only did I long for the…
