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A Brief Description about Kriya Yoga:

Kriya Yoga is ancient Yoga brought down by Sri Sri Lahiri Mahasaya from Mahavatar Babaji Maharaj. Kriya Yoga is not like chanting of mantras, singing songs in the name of God, nor concentrating on prayers or japas or mere simple meditation. It is completely a different way / technique by which one can permanently establish himself in the inner evenness of soul towards unification with the Divine Spirit. One must also understand that the path of spirituality is very slippery and full of challenges. There are some specific stages that a disciple has to slowly pass through as he gradually moves forward. Until and unless he reaches that stage, he is not allowed to expose to the higher degree of Kriya Sopan. One must, therefore, know that stepping towards higher degree of Kriya Yoga in true path takes long time. So, those who are sincere and honest spiritual seekers must first of all identify and choose a real Sadguru who can guide themselves to the true path of Kriya Yoga.

Yogacharya Sri Sri Adyanath Roy, whom many people know as one of the greatest Yogi ever. Though he has left his body long back, many people who wanted to travel in the true path of Kriya were being initiated (Diksha) at his own room where he used to do his Sadhana, by his deciple cum youngest son Sri Sri Prodip Kumar Roy, till year 2017.

On 12th Feb, 2018 at 3:55 PM IST, Sri Sri Prodip Kumar Roy left his body devastating all of us!!

Some facts:

• Yogiraj Shri Shri Shyamacharan Lahiri Mahasaya was totally against the idea of setting up any Ashram, Math or Mission for spreading Kriya Yoga. He said that the spirit of Kriya does not exist at the place where such Institutions are formed. He used to say, – “There are plenty of skeleton type Spiritual Ashram, Math or Mission in India. These philanthropic Institutions form major obstacles in the path of Spiritual Sadhana as their only motto is to make all-round development of the organization instead of achieving the real goal for which these are formed”. So Lahiri Mahasaya stressed upon making Atma Kriya or Sadhana very secretly by maintaining a simple life style. He used to say, - “If you wear Saffron dress, people will consider you as a Saint or Sanyasi and such an appearance may bring major obstacle in the course of Sadhana; whereas if you wear a simple and normal dress, you will not be recognized as something different from other common people, and your desire of practicing Atma Karma remains secret and proper”. He never permitted any of his Kriyanidths to switch over to Saint or Sanyasi since their life is really hard and troublesome. But some of his Kriyanidths were Sanyasis even before they came to him. He, therefore, used to advise his household disciples to stay at home and Sanyasis to stay at their ashram respectively and practice "Atma Karma", or Kriya without changing their dress or environment. He also said, - “If you owe to Kriya, it will definitely come to you one day or other wherever you are”.
• There is no connection between material needs of this world and spiritual attainments of Kriya Yoga. Each and every human being must have good thoughts, good actions and good deeds. Side by side, many bad qualities viz. greed, lust, jealousy, anger and bad thoughts influence us as we grow older. Such qualities mingled with happiness and sadness always come in their own way in everybody’s life as a matter of routine. A sincere practice of Kriya can only minimize the intensity of all such earthly mind-set feelings. To find real inner joy in our life, we have no choice but to opt towards a spiritual dictum. As soon as we enter into the path of initiation of true or pure Kriya, just be sure that Prakiti or Nature will always try to resist us in every manner and divert us away from this righteous pathway of Divine Light. It's our strong set of mind that has to be always applied to overcome all those reactionary forces. Yogacharya Sri Sri Adyanath Roy used to say, "Real Kriya is like a Cobra, don't play with it because it will not spare your wrong deeds. So beware, if you enter into the initiation process (i.e. Diksha), you have to practice it sincerely & regularly in total secret as per the instruction of your Gurudeva without fail otherwise the snake will bite you.” The time of practice depends upon the stage where you are. As soon as you proceed ahead with a higher degree of Kriya Sopan or Stage, you have to spend more time on it. Moreover, at the time of initiation, one has to take an oath that he/she will not disassociate from this "Atma Karma" till physical death. So nobody should ever try to consider it like a childish game. If one is determined enough to permanently respond to the clarion call of his inner soul, and then only he should proceed to this spiritual path fearlessly towards reaching the ultimate goal of union with Param Atma or Salvation.