The Denver Center of the
Kriya Yoga Institute

Article #1

The mind is a blessing, but it's a tool that should be properly handled. Infinitely more powerful than the physical body, the mind can move with lightning speed between attachments, thoughts and cravings. Playing within the internal world of the body just as it plays within the external world, its restless nature can result in stress ad agitation. But it can be regulated in order to make our lives more peaceful.

Among differing means of tranquilizing the mind, the most effective and the simplest is the path of meditation. This disciplined art brings simultaneous harmony to the body, breath, and mind, improving physical and mental health, while providing inner tranquility and peace to every aspect of life, allowing our own divinity to shine through.

The practice of Kriya Yoga meditation is essentially based on breath control, which is crucial to controlling our minds. It involves sitting for a minimum of 20 minutes a day, in complete silence, breathing slowly and deeply from each chakra (subtle energy centers in the spine), and concentrating intensely on that chakra.

Scientifically, this type of chakra meditation helps keep the entire human body healthy. When we suffer from any endocrine dysfunction, concentrating in the corresponding chakra helps to remedy the imbalance. For example, when we concentrate in the fontanel (the top of the head), the pineal gland becomes activated. Concentrating in the soul center (between our eyebrows) energizes the pituitary gland. Concentration in the throat center activates the thyroid and parathyroid glands, the heart center stimulates the thymus, the navel center energizes the liver, spleen and pancreas and the sacral and coccygeal centers benefits the gonads.

After relaxing the mind and body through simple breathing and concentration exercises, we merge silently with the universe, allowing the inner voice to be heard. In that silence, we gain tremendous peace, strength and even practical answers to our questions whether they have to do with our families, our careers or our spiritual growth. Remember, meditation is not limited to any one religion. It is a tool with which we can enhance whatever religion we are currently practicing. It requires no expensive equipment or physical contortions and can be practiced by old and young alike. But whatever your practice, regularity and sincerity are highly essential. Let not a day pass without meditation and spiritual life. May God's blessings be upon you all.

Article #2 By Paramahamsa Prajnanananda

Life is so stressful and distressing. There is little opportunity for relaxation and real joy. Everyone is busy, running around without a real purpose and at the end of the day they are tired, bored and unhappy. To live a life of peace, relaxation and harmony is an art. Meditation gives the answer to all these problems. Meditation is the art of living through the science of breath control.

Your heart, lungs and other internal organs are overburdened with the pressure of work and anxiety. If you know how to relax them, you can, within a short period of time, live a peaceful and harmonious life.

An average man breathes approximately 21,600 times a day with normal activities but if one practices meditation, the breath rate is naturally slowed down and it becomes more rhythmic. It rejuvenates the brain and the mind making one free from fatigue, disease, tension and creates a stress-free life.

We abuse the instruments of our body and mind because we misunderstand and lead incorrect lifestyles and so we suffer in daily life. Meditation brings proper understanding with a meaningful purpose for living in this world.

Human beings have been filling their brains with the garbage of dirty ideas and emotions. Meditation is the key to keeping the brain free from all the negative and harmful thoughts and to have a concentrated, focused mind. Meditation is not imagination, speculation, hallucination or visualization: through a scientific way of breath control and concentration one gets a state of complete tranquility and peace. It is an inner awakening.

There are many ways and means. Kriya Yoga is an easy way of meditation, without hardship and granting quick spiritual evolution. An age-old science of breathing and meditating which helps one get inner peace, bliss and joy, Kriya Yoga is practiced by millions of people all over the world. Through following different steps of Kriya practice, under the direct supervision of an advanced teacher, one is able to transform one's life, with better health, calmness of mind, inner peace, agility and activity.

Free from all dogmatic belief, Kriya Yoga teaches scientific meditation through inner transformation and achieving self emancipation. A short period of Kriya practice leads to an uninterrupted experience of peace and divine bliss and can enable one to enjoy the long term effect of meditation.

Kriya Yoga, being the root of all yogas, teaches the essence of religion. Its practice results in immediate spiritual, intellectual, mental, and physical benefits. Moreover, it is assured that the seeker will perceive three divine qualities: divine light, divine sound and divine movement sensation. Through the God realized (jivanmukta) master, Paramahamsa Hariharanandaji, Kriya Yoga provides this rare opportunity to any spiritual seeker interested in attaining spiritual advancement. The master saint occupies a very high rank among the Indian yogis of this century. He has attained the supreme yogic state of nirvikalpa samadhi (the pulseless and breathless state).