Sjálfsævisaga jóga endurútgefin?

 

The science of Kriya Yoga, mentioned so often in these pages, became widely known in modern India through the instrumentality of Lahiri Mahasaya, my guru's guru. The Sanskrit root of Kriya is kri, to do, to act and react; the same root is found in the word karma, the natural principle of cause and effect. Kriya Yoga is thus "union (yoga) with the Infinite through a certain action or rite." A yogi who faithfully follows its technique is gradually freed from karma or the universal chain of causation.

 

Because of certain ancient yogic injunctions, I cannot give a full explanation of Kriya Yoga in the pages of a book intended for the general public. The actual technique must be learned from a Kriyaban or Kriya Yogi; here a broad reference must suffice.

 

Kriya Yoga is a simple, psychophysiological method by which the human blood is decarbonized and recharged with oxygen. The atoms of this extra oxygen are transmuted into life current to rejuvenate the brain and spinal centers. By stopping the accumulation of venous blood, the yogi is able to lessen or prevent the decay of tissues; the advanced yogi transmutes his cells into pure energy. Elijah, Jesus, Kabir and other prophets were past masters in the use of Kriya or a similar technique, by which they caused their bodies to dematerialize at will.

 

Kriya is an ancient science. Lahiri Mahasaya received it from his guru, Babaji, who rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages.

 

"The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century," Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya, "is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples."

 

 

Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi

 

 

Hér getið þið lesið bókina á netinu: http://www.ananda.org/inspiration/books/ay/contents.html 

 

 

 

Autobiography of a Yogi kom fyrst út í íslenskri þýðingu Ingibjargar Thorarensen árið 1956 og bar þá íslenska heitið Hvað er bak við myrkur lokaðra augna. Hún var svo endurútgefin árið 1970 en þá undir heitinu Sjálfsævisaga jóga. Bókin hefur ekki verið endurútgefin síðan þá og er því uppseld fyrir löngu og meira segja erfitt að fá hana að láni á bókasöfnum, því ásóknin í hana er mikil. Einnig fæst hún fyrir mikinn pening á fornbókasölum. Málið er að ég hef fengið leyfi til þess að endurútgefa þessa frábæru bók en mig vantar útgefanda, þannig að ef það er einhver sem les þetta sem veit um líklegan útgefanda þá væri mjög gott að fá að vita það. Þið getið sett inn athugasemd eða sent mér línu á netfangið: [e-mail]

Með þökk og kveðju, Leifur

Life is action from the beginning to the end

 

I do not know if you have noticed in the morning, high up in the sky, the big vultures, the big birds, flying without a movement of their wings, flying by the current of the air, silently moving. That is action. And also the worm under the earth, eating—that too is activity, that is also action. So also is it action when a politician gets up on the platform and says nothing, or when a person writes, reads, or makes a statue out of marble. That is also action when a man, who has a family, goes to the office for the next forty years, day after day, doing drudgery work without much meaning, wasting his life endlessly about nothing! All that a scientist, an artist, a musician, a speaker does—that too is action. Life is action from the beginning to the end; the whole movement is action.

 

 

Krishnamurti

 

 

Sjá: http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/

This is your story and mine

 

The Buddha was born a prince and was predicted that he would become either a great religious leader or a great emperor. His father, the king, preferred to see his boy become a great emperor, so he had him trained in the arts of the warrior and the statesman. He also provided the comforts and entertainment appropriate to the station of a young prince – fine food and clothing, and the rest of it. 

 

This is your story and mine. When we are young, we are all little princes and princesses. We are each of us the center of the universe. In facts, our mouths are the center, and everything enters therein. We are guided by our parents towards a sense of responsibility, but despite the program set up about us, we emerge, each in our own way, as individual inquirers.

Robert Aitken - Taking the path of Zen

 

Starfaðu án þess að vera háður starfinu

 

Vel getur sá látið sér lynda að lifa hundrað ár, sem starfar án þess að vera háður starfinu, vinnur verk sín í einlægni en án langana, þráir ekki ávexti þeirra,- hann og hann einn.

Isha Upanishad

Buddhadharma

 

 Buddhadharma works every day. The great sky doesn´t bother the function of the white cloud.

 

 

Dainin Katagiri-roshi  - You have to say something

Our essence-nature is empty and vast like the blue sky

 

When we can awaken to the emptiness of the principle of cause and effect then it will no longer bother us. It's like clouds which appear and disappear. The cause is the arising, the result is the disappearing. Then we simply do not become attached to the arising or the disappearance. If we are to be unattached to this, then we must have wisdom. Because that wisdom allows us to distinguish what is the arising and what is the disappearance. Our essence-nature is empty and vast like the blue sky, no matter how many clouds appear in that sky, the clouds cannot stay there forever.

 

 

 

Sjá meira hér: http://www.zenhall.org/Pages/talkfive.html

 

Kennsla í kriya yoga 23. - 25. maí

 

Þann 23. maí 2008 er Rajarshi Peter Van Breukelen væntanlegur hingað til lands og mun hann leiðbeina fólki í kriya yoga, halda fyrirlestra, leiða hugleiðslur og vígja þá sem þess óska.

Kynningarfyrirlestur verður haldinn föstudaginn 23. maí kl. 20:00 í sal Rósarinnar, Bolholti 4 (áður Lífsýnarsalurinn). Fyrirlesturinn er án endurgjalds og öllum opinn.

Kennsla í Kriya yoga fer svo fram dagana 24.- 25. maí í Yogastöðinni Heilsubót, Síðumúla 15.   

Sjá betur á: www.kriyayoga.is

The enemy who can truly teach us

 

 

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

 

 

Dalai Lama

This is the goal of yoga

 

Although we begin meditation practice for a variety of reasons, the intention from a scriptural point of view is clear: meditation is to help us attain the fulfillment of the human incarnation: the realization of our oneness with the infinite Self, Brahman. This is the goal of yoga.

Sivananda

 

GOD

 

Who is God? What is God? Is there a God? Where is God? How to realise God? Man wants an answer to these eternal questions. Certainly there is God. God exists. He is the only reality. God is your creator, saviour, and redeemer. He is all-pervading. He dwells in your heart. He is always near you. He is nearer to you than your jugular vein or nose. He loves you. He can talk to you. You cannot find God by the intellect. But, you can find Him by feeling, meditation, experience, and realisation.

 

WHO IS GOD?

The Petromax does not talk, but it shines and sheds light all around. The jessamine does not speak, but it wafts its fragrance everywhere. The lighthouse sounds no drum, but sends its friendly light to the mariner. The Unseen beats no gong, but Its omnipresence is felt by the dispassionate and discriminating sage.

Behind all names and forms is the one nameless, formless Essence. Behind all governors is the one Supreme Governor of governors. Behind all lights is the one Light Of lights. Behind all sounds, there is the soundless Supreme Silence. Behind all teachers is the one Supreme Guru of Gurus.

Behind all these perishable objects is the one imperishable Absolute. Behind all these motions is the one motionless Infinite. Behind time, minutes, and days is the one timeless Eternity. Behind hatred, riots, and wars is the one hidden Love.

God is the totality of all that exists, both animate and inanimate, sentient and insentient. He is free from ills and limitations. He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. He has no beginning, middle, or end. He is the indweller in all beings. He controls from within.

God is all in all. God is the only reality in this universe. The existence of things is by the light of God.

God is ever living. All depend on Him. He is not depending on any. He is the Truth.

God is the end or goal of all Yoga Sadhanas. He is the Centre towards which all things strive. He is the highest purpose or highest good of the world. You have the urge of hunger. There is food to appease the hunger. You have the urge of thirst. There is water to quench the thirst. There is the urge to be always happy. There must be something to satisfy this urge. This something is God, an embodiment of happiness. God, Immortality, Freedom, Perfection, Peace, Bliss, Love are synonymous terms.

  

WHAT IS GOD?

What is God? It is hard to tell. But, when I look at the Ganga, I know it is God. When I see the jessamine, I know it is God. When I behold the blue sky, I know it is God. When I hear the chirping of birds, I know it is God. When I taste honey, I know it is God.

The Supreme is indefinable, though scholars give intellectual accounts of It which are not absolutely true.

Every man has his own conception of God. The God of a military man wears a helmet. The God of a China-man has a flat nose and a pipe for smoking opium. The God of a Hindu has marks on his forehead, and wears a rosary and a garland of flowers. The God of a Christian wears a Cross. For some, God has wings. A buffalo will think that God is a very big buffalo.

Such an anthropomorphic conception of God is obviously puerile. The greatest and most important thing in all the world is to get a right concept of God, because your belief about God governs your entire life.

 

Sri Swami Sivananda