CONCEPT OF KRIYA IN KUNDALINI YOGA AND HATHA YOGA

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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 creates 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.