Kriya definition -attn: Nabil & Alyssa

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Hello Nabil,

Better late than never. You asked a question almost four months ago and I

thought the below quote might help you. Alyssa, you will get

something from this, also.

Dharam

 

CONCEPT OF KRIYA IN KUNDALINI YOGA AND HATHA YOGA

 

You'll find the word kriya used frequently. Kriya yoga, Kundalini Kriyas, and

Kriya shakti. The root word kriya means action, but it has very

specific connotations. In Kundalini Yoga, Kriya shakti is the power of the soul

to manifest itself into each realm of experience: the realm of the

mind through proper thought; the realm of the body, through proper movement,

shape, form; and the realm of action through the power of the will to

manifest creativity that serves the Infinite. Kriya is also often called tattva

shakti, which is the ability of the great soul of the universal

self to create new categories, levels of manifestation in mind body and in the

world. Kriya is not just any reflex or action, but an action that

leads to a complete manifestation; that lets a seed come to bloom, a thought

come into actuality, a desire become a commitment.

 

When you learn to act with kriya, then action becomes synchronous with the

larger pattern of the Self. We get into kriya by the removal of blocks,

attachments, blindness and ego that hold us back from acting when we ought to

act.

 

To act with kriya is a state of spontaneous flow. It's free of all of the

blocks. You apply great effort just when great effort should be applied.

You apply great relaxation just when great relaxation should be applied. There

is a perfect match between the inner and outer, between the inner

resources and the outer demands. There is no gap of doubt, no hesitation, no

partial support of the action by only one area of your mind and not

another. That sense of wholeness and appropriateness to the action create a

grace in your body, a central power in your thought, and a projective

ability in your mind.

 

Mastering kriya brings with it a sense of grace, power, and the ability to

complete things. You act both timelessly and timely. Kriya is not a

random collection of actions. As you put together a transmission in a car,

there's a number of gears that have to be in place and they have to be

there in a certain sequence and then the power that's in the motor can be

transferred to the wheels and you can go where you need to….Just so, a

kriya in yoga is a sequence of postures, breath, and sound that are integrated

together to allow the manifestation of a particular state. When you

do a Kundalini kriya, the result of its repetition is the access to, and mastery

of a particular, predictable and stable state, a facet of your

awareness.

 

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"Nabil M. Rizkallah" wrote:

 

> hi everybody,

> I am eager to know when yoga becomes kriya.

>

> i went through the 'yoga vedanta dictionary',

> it says:

> kriya = phisical action; particular exercise in hata yoga such as basti, neti,

nauli.

>

> 1- kundaliniyoga offers kryias that are neither basti, neti nor nauli.

> 2- 'sri sri ravi shankar' offers a "grand kriya" (continuous breathing on

different cadences for one hour)

> this is no basti, nor neti, nor nauli.

> 3- a lebanese reiki teacher sells a 'kriya yoga' that does not match with the

above.

> 4- a lebanese woman hata yoga teacher defines kriya as simply 'the breath'

>

> i am confused !

>

> can an authority gives me the right definition of kriya.

> sat nam

> nabil

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