A Spiritual Diary

[Vidya Moksha]

Winds of the South, Great Serpent, come and coil yourselves around this fire tonight. Teach us to shed our past as you shed your skin, all in one go.

Winds of the West, Mother, sister Jaguar, join and protect this gathering this evening.

Winds of the North, Hummingbird, our ancestors, the ancient ones. We invite you here tonight and pay homage to our lineage and our ancestors and the teachings you have passed down to us.

Winds of the East, Great Eagle, join this fire tonight and grant us your ability to see all from such a great hight.

Panchamama, Mother Earth, you are always with us, and we pay our repsects to you and send our love to you as you love and nourish us.

Father, Grandfather sky, we are gathered under your wonderful presence tonight and we give thanks and send our love to all creation.

Thank you all for joining us around this fire this night, stay if you will, go if you must.

[kriya]

May 2nd

[truthseekerdan]

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think.
The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

- A Course in Miracles

[kriya]

May 3rd

The benefits of Kriya Yoga

Your life will reflect spiritual consciousness if you meditate. Since the publication of my book [Autobiography of a Yogi], everyone is asking about Kriya Yoga. That is my purpose. I didn’t come to give theological abstractions, but a technique whereby those who are sincere can truly know God, not just theorize about Him....The practice of Kriya gives the true experience of religion, which cannot be had by just talking about God. Jesus said: ‘Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?’

“When by Kriya Yoga I open my spiritual eye, the whole world drops away from my consciousness, and God is with me. And why not? I am His child. St. Ignatius said, ‘God seeks willing hearts that He may give His bounties to them....’ That is most beautiful, and that is what I believe. God seeks willing hearts for the bestowal of His gifts. He is willing to give us everything, but we are not willing to make the effort to be receptive.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda,
Journey to Self-realization

[omshanti2]

This is a beautiful thread kriya, and thank you to all for sharing.

[Anchor]

Posted by perfectresonance (here)
(little grandmother video)

Thanks so much for posting this. It took a chunk out my bandwidth, (366Mb) but I downloaded it now so I can watch it again and give it to friends.

John..

[truthseekerdan]

Posted by John (here)
Thanks so much for posting this. It took a chunk out my bandwidth, (366Mb) but I downloaded it now so I can watch it again and give it to friends.

John..

Hey John (Anchor), great to have you here...

Love and respect, ~ Dan ~

[kriya]

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this thread.

Guests to the spirtuality forum.

May 4th

Decades before the mainstream discovered the power of affirmation in healing the mind and the body, Paramahansa Yogananda was teaching rapt audiences around the country how to directly access and apply the remarkable healing powers hidden within every human being. He introduced this powerful healing practice to American audiences during his first cross-country speaking tour in 1924. Throughout the 1930s and 40s, the great teacher would nearly always open or conclude his inspirational services at the SRF temples he had founded by leading those present in an affirmation for healing, or for awakening will power or devotion or perception of the presence of God. Today hundreds of thousands of people around the world have benefited from the practice of his techniques of scientific healing affirmations.

I am calmly active, and actively calm. I am a prince of peace, sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity

[kriya]

Affirmation Instructions


Understanding How to Use the Power of Affirmation
From Scientific Healing Affirmations, by Paramahansa Yogananda

Man’s word is Spirit in man....Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.



Each thought of depression or happiness, irritability or calmness, cuts subtle grooves in the brain cells and strengthens the tendencies toward sickness or well-being.

The subconscious idea-habit of disease or health exerts a strong influence. Stubborn mental or physical diseases always have a deep root in the subconsciousness. Illness may be cured by pulling out its hidden roots. That is why all affirmations of the conscious mind should be impressive enough to permeate the subconsciousness, which in turn automatically influences the conscious mind.

Strong conscious affirmations thus react on the mind and body through the medium of the subconsciousness. Still stronger affirmations reach not only the subconscious but also the superconscious mind — the magic storehouse of miraculous powers.


Declarations of Truth should be practiced willingly, freely, intelligently, and devotionally. One’s attention should not be allowed to lag. Straying attention should be brought back again and again like a truant child and repeatedly and patiently trained to perform its given task.


Patience and attentive, intelligent repetition are wonder-workers. Affirmations for curing chronic mental or bodily afflictions should be repeated often, deeply and continuously (utterly ignoring unchanged or contrary conditions, if any), until they become part of one's profound intuitional convictions.



Choose your affirmation and repeat all of it, first loudly, then softly and more slowly, until your voice becomes a whisper. Then gradually affirm it mentally only, without moving the tongue or the lips, until you feel that you have attained deep, unbroken concentration not unconsciousness, but a profound continuity of uninterrupted thought.

If you continue with your mental affirmation, and go still deeper, you will feel a sense of increasing joy and peace. During the state of deep concentration, your affirmation will merge with the subconscious stream, to come back later reinforced with power to influence your conscious mind through the law of habit.

During the time that you experience ever-increasing peace, your affirmation goes deeper, into the superconscious realm, to return later laden with unlimited power to influence your conscious mind and also to fulfill your desires. Doubt not and you shall witness the miracle of this scientific faith.
How to Practice Affirmations

1. Choose an affirmation for your particular need.
2. Sit with spine erect.
3. Close your eyes and gently focus your gaze and concentrate at the point between the eyebrows.
4. Then, Paramahansaji said, “take a deep breath and exhale it, three times. Relax the body and keep it motionless....
5. Cast away anxiety, distrust, and worry....
6. Repeat all of the affirmation, first loudly, then softly and more slowly, until your voice becomes a whisper.
7. Then gradually affirm it mentally only, without moving the tongue or the lips, until you feel that you have attained deep, unbroken concentration — not unconsciousness, but a profound continuity of uninterrupted thought.
8. If you continue with your mental affirmation, and go still deeper, you will feel a sense of increasing joy and peace.”

Further Reading

Scientific Healing Affirmations by Paramahansa Yogananda

[yiolas]

Thanks Kriya for the affirmation instructions. I'm bookmarking this.

[truthseekerdan]

"True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found."

- Eckhart Tolle

[kriya]

Thank you and you are welcome, Yiolas.

May 5th

Wayne Dyer: The power of Intention





http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...2253039527684#

[rio]

Thank you for this wonderful thread, kriya. It IS, indeed, an oasis.

"Give up owning things and being somebody. Quit existing."

-Rumi

[kriya]

Rio

and thank you very much for your lovely words

great quote too. Feel free to post more quotes ect..if you wish, i love Rumi.

Love,

Kriya

[rio]

Thank you, kriya!

[truthseekerdan]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Td044AFVD8U

[Vidya Moksha]

[kriya]

May 6th

I have been inspired today by the brilliant images posted by VM and Dan.

Thank you.

[truthseekerdan]

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Ludwig Börne

[Vidya Moksha]

These early ones are a bit repetitive but they are an important step to the higher kriyas. I doubt many (any) of you are trying them, but they are here anyway...

kriya 4/20

Pawan Sanchalana (conducting the breath consciousness)
Sit in siddhasana, eyes closed. Practice chechari mudra and ujjay pranayama throughout.
Exhale completely, open the eyes and bend the head forwards.
Become aware of Mooladhara and repeat its name mentally 3 times.
Mentally say Arohan and begin your ascent of this frontal passage. Become aware of, and name, the chakras as you pass them.
Between Vishuddhi and Bindu, raise your head.
At Bindhu, say its name 3 times, then say Awarohan and begin the decent down this rear passage. Identify and name the chakras as you pass them. As you decend slowly close the eyes, gradually entering unmani mudra (attitude of drowsiness). By Mooladhara the eys will be closed.
Open your eyes and bend the head forward. Repeat mentally "mooladhara' 3 times and begin the ascent as before
repeat 49 rounds