Yogananda also stated that Krishna was referring to Kriya Yoga when "Krishna. Offering inhaling breath into the outgoing breath, and offering the outgoing breath into the inhaling breath, the yogi neutralizes both these breaths he thus releases the life force from the heart and brings it under his control. Yogananda says that Krishna refers to Kriya Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita: According to Yogananda, Kriya Yoga was well known in ancient India, but was eventually lost, due to "priestly secrecy and man’s indifference". Yogananda wrote in God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita that the science of Kriya Yoga was given to Manu, the first man according to the Vedas, and through him to Janaka and other royal sages. Swami Satyananda wrote "Kriya sadhana may be thought of as the sadhana of the 'practice of being in Atman' ".
Elijah, Jesus, Kabir and other prophets were past masters in the use of Kriya or a similar technique, by which they caused their bodies to materialize and dematerialize at will." By stopping the accumulation of venous blood, the yogi is able to lessen or prevent the decay of tissues the advanced yogi transmutes his cells into pure energy. The atoms of this extra oxygen are transmuted into life current to rejuvenate the brain and spinal centers. " Kriya Yoga is a simple, psycho-physiological method by which the human blood is decarbonized and recharged with oxygen. The process of performing Kriya Yoga is claimed to lead to a certain purification of the blood which frees up the life force to withdraw into the spine. One half-minute of revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of man effects subtle progress in his evolution that half-minute of Kriya equals one year of natural spiritual unfoldment." He recounted that after his initiation into Kriya Yoga, "Babaji instructed me in the ancient rigid rules which govern the transmission of the yogic art from Guru to disciple." Īs Yogananda describes Kriya Yoga, "The Kriya Yogi mentally directs his life energy to revolve, upward and downward, around the six spinal centers (medullary, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses) which correspond to the twelve astral signs of the zodiac, the symbolic Cosmic Man. Kriya Yoga, as taught by Lahiri Mahasaya, is traditionally exclusively learned via the Guru-disciple relationship and the initiation consists of a secret ceremony. The latter is reported to have introduced the concept as essentially identical to the Raja Yoga of Patanjali and the concept of Yoga as described in the Bhagavad Gita. Yogananda attributes his description of Kriya Yoga to his lineage of gurus, Sri Yukteswar Giri, Lahiri Mahasaya, and Mahavatar Babaji. The Kriya yoga system consists of a number of levels of pranayama, mantra, and mudra based on techniques intended to rapidly accelerate spiritual development and engender a profound state of tranquility and God-communion. Īccording to Yogananda the ancient Yogic text the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali contains a description of Kriya Yoga in the second chapter II.49: "Liberation can be attained by that pranayama which is accomplished by disjoining the course of inspiration and expiration."
Kriya Yoga was brought to international awareness by Paramahansa Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi and through Yogananda's introductions of the practice to the west from 1920. It is also a modern school, described by its practitioners as the ancient Yoga system revived in modern times by Mahavatar Babaji through his disciple Lahiri Mahasaya, c. The yoga of action (kriyayoga) is: asceticism ( tapas), recitation ( svadhyaya), and devotion (pranidhana) to Ishvara (the lord). The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.1 defines three types of kriya (action):
Kriya Yoga (Sanskrit: क्रिया योग) is the active aspect of yoga. Mahavatar Babaji transmitted to Lahiri Mahasaya
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