Kriya Quotes

“Kriya Yoga is more than a meditation technique; it is also a way of life, and requires acceptance by the initiate of certain spiritual disciplines and injunctions.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“If you directly learn some meditation technique, you won't be able to do it when you need it the most (when life is painful). Before learning techniques, build faith in God/Universe. But alas! These days people idolize Karna, not Arjuna.”
― Shunya

“Yoga, Tantra, Kriya and other systems of knowledge and devotion can only mould your vessel (body-mind) in a certain way. The divine nectar descends in the vessel only by His grace. Even the best practitioners remain empty all their life.”
― Shunya

“My worship is of a very strange kind.
In this, Ganga water is not required.
No special utensils are necessary.
Even flowers are redundant.

In this puja all gods have disappeared
And emptiness has emerged with euphoria.”
― Lahiri Mahasaya

“Initiation into Kriya Yoga: [...]

"He touched my forehead. Masses of whirling light appeared: the radiance gradually formed itself into an opal-blue spiritual eye, ringed in gold and centered wit ha white pentagonal star."

"'Penetrate your consciousnes through the star into the kingdom of the Infinite' My guru's voice had a new note, soft like distant music.

"Vision after vision broke as oceanic surf on the shores of my soul. The panoramic spheres finally melted in a sea of bliss. I lost myself in ever surging blessedness. When I returned hours later to awareness of this world, the master gave me the technique of Kriya Yoga.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi