Astavakra Gita: In The Light Of Kriya

by Lahiri Mahasaya

This is a scriptural commentary of Lahiri Mahasaya on Astavakra Gita in the Light of Kriya.

This is the conversation between the famous and mysterious young Master, Yogi Astavakra and his old disciple, King Janaka.

Table of

Atmanubhava : Realizing the Self
Realizing the Self (Continued)
Upadesh : Advice
Ullas : Joy
Laya Chatustaka : The Four Dissolutions
Laya Chatustaka : The Four Dissolutions
Anubhava : Realization
Bandhana and Moksha : Bondage and Liberation
Asta (eight) Nirvadas : Tranquility
Upasana : Inwardness
Nirvikalpa : Eternal Tranquility
Upasana : Inwardness
Jnana : Knowledge
Shanti : Peace
Tattva swarup : Essence or Doctrine
Advice On Knowledge
Tattva : Essence of Consciousness or Doctrine
Shanti Shataka : One Hundred Verses on Tranquility
Vishranta : Eternal Tranquility
Jivanmukta : Liberated in the embodied state
Sankhyakram : Account of Verses

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First published August 12, 2014

About the author

Lahiri Mahasaya, was an Indian yogi guru who founded the Kriya Yoga school.
He became known in the West through Paramahansa Yogananda, a disciple of Sri Yukteswar Giri, and through Yogananda's 1946 book Autobiography of a Yogi .

To note his high spiritual state, his followers called him Mahasaya, which is a Sanskrit spiritual title translated as 'large-minded'. He was also popularly known as Yogiraj and Kashi Baba by his followers.

He organized many study groups and gave regular discourses on the Bhagavad Gita at his "Gita Assemblies." He freely gave Kriya initiation to those of every faith and status, from gardeners and postmen to kings; from Hindus to Muslims and Christians.

The Arya Mission Institution published commentaries by Lahiri on the Bhagavad Gita, along with other spiritual books, including a Bengali translation of the Gita. Lahiri himself had printed thousands of small books with excerpted passages from the Gita, in Bengali and Hindi, and distributed them for free.

He gave permission to one disciple, Panchanan Bhattacharya, to start an institution in Kolkata to spread the teachings of Kriya Yoga.

Some of his notable disciples included:
- Panchanan Bhattacharya,
- Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri
- Swami Pranabananda,
- Swami Keshavananda Brahmachari,
- Bhupendranath Sanyal
- The parents of Paramahansa Yogananda.