For Beginning and Experienced
Yogis Alike Both instructive and inspiring, Kriya Yoga: Spiritual Awakening for the New Age can be the spark showing the aspiring devotee both how and why to take up the lifelong practice of Kriya Yoga. Learn the pitfalls to look out for along the way, and how to reach ultimate success on your journey to Self-realization.
Simultaneously, this book is a roadmap for the already practicing Kriya Yogi. Through real-life stories from longtime Kriyabans, learn those attitudes and practices that can help or hinder your progress on the spiritual path.
"I wasn’t sent to the West by Christ and the great masters of India," Yogananda often told his audiences, "to dogmatize you with a new theology. Jesus himself asked Babaji to send someone here to teach you the science of Kriya Yoga, that people might learn how to commune with God directly. I want to help you toward the attainment of actual experience of Him, through your daily practice of Kriya Yoga." He added, "The time for knowing God has come!"
Paramhansa Yogananda brought Kriya Yoga to the West in 1920, although yogis and great masters have taught it for thousands of years, usually in secrecy. In his Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda wrote that the technique of Kriya, or a similar technique, has been practiced by many masters and prophets, including Krishna, Christ, Elijah, Kabir, Arjuna, and Patanjali. Because of its effectiveness, Yogananda referred to the Kriya technique as "the airplane route to God."