The Practices In Kriya Yoga
In kriya yoga we use mudras, bandhas and pranayama. For example: one of the important practices in kriya yoga is called khechari mudra. This can help us utilise a type of secretion or nectar in the body which creates a spiritual attitude. From bindu chakra in the cranial passage, this nectar flows, and it has to be tasted by the aspirant through the practice of khechari mudra. You may not taste it every day but you can taste it sometimes. When this happens, then you have no mind at all. Thoughts evaporate and tranquillity comes automatically.
When you practise kriya yoga the whole physical body is immediately controlled. Afterwards mental control comes by itself without trying to eliminate the conscious tendencies of the mind. Higher awareness can be apprehended even when your awareness is external. Homogeneous awareness is potential in everyone, but in order to have that experience we must widen the capacities of mind and consciousness.
In all the kriya practices you are asked not to worry about the behaviour of the mind. There is no emphasis on steadiness and tranquillity because the practices are dynamic by nature, not static. There is no passivity as you have in other systems of meditation. The mind and consciousness must remain active, not inactive. This is the difference between hypnotism and yogic experience. When the elements of the body and mind are directed towards inactivity, you are headed towards the hypnotic state.
Total experience
Through the practices of kriya yoga, you are not inactivating the mind, you are stimulating the mind and the pranas as well as each and every organ. Therefore, you don't feel the same type of tranquillity which is created in the hypnotic state. Most people want to escape, and they are trying to find the easiest way, but I'm not for that. I know that the mind is troublesome, but we can channelize its dynamism.
There should be no effort at controlling the behaviour and tendencies of the mind. In kriya yoga, you are not aspiring for a state of absolute shoonya, but a state of absolute existence. You want to be spiritually evolved and, at the same time, aware of the entire creation. Sensory, mental and spiritual experiences are a composition of one experience, but when you go inside and block off sensory and mental experience, that is incomplete experience.
So let us have total experience, not partial experience. When you sit in an asana, close your eyes, switch off your mind and go into meditation- this is partial experience. But when you are aware of the outside and the inside simultaneously, this is complete and total experience. This is the way for modern people, because you want to live this life as well, no matter how much you aspire for that life. Therefore, this life and that life, this consciousness and that consciousness, this awareness and that awareness must be intermingled.
So, in fact, kriya yoga does not lead to shoonya samadhi. Kriya yoga leads to expansion of consciousness and liberation of energy. The energy is in mooladhara. It is dormant and it has to be liberated. The purpose of kriya yoga is to awaken the kundalini and when awakening of kundalini takes place, the totality becomes superb and beautiful. You have a new sense, a new awareness, and a new perception. Continued From Part I Part II
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