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Kriya Requires Creative Action

What Kriya does, in my opinion, is it amps up the nervous system and allows it to become more acute and perceptive to subtler waves of information. This acquired sensitized acuity does not automatically guarantee a certain set of behaviors.

The idea is to internalize the bliss and allow it to wield lasting impressions on the nervous system. In SRF parlance, this means "holding on to the effects of meditation." Brother Turiyananda often reminded us of an infrequently mentioned piece of advice of Yogananda's to centralize all the feelings of bliss into the brain and hold that feeling there for an extended period of time. This , he said, multiplies the results. One could then do it at the heart center or any other part of the body.

Most of what's being talked about involves two categories of Kriya practitioners: Bliss Bunnies and the Non-Resulters.
The Bliss Bunnies are just that -- people who regard spiritual joy as some yummy carrot they can munch on whenever their little rabbit tummies feel hungry. But this is not creative; in fact, it inevitably leads to the fetishizing of the technique, turning it into some mystical totem with the power to do all the work those passive little rabbits ought to be doing for themselves.

Inevitably, life catches up. Remember the old computer term GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out)? What we put into life, or don't put into it, is what we get out of it. I ask the following: What are we doing with that Bliss? How are we utilizing it? Or are we allowing life to happen to us? Are we latching on to the values of the SRF organization only to discover that our lives don't work out because the SRF value system has elements to it that are thoroughly contradictory to our authenticity?

We are creative beings. The fundamental premise of what it means to be creative is that we have the freedom to make choices and witness the results of those choices. Kriya, in my opinion, simply makes us a more sensitive radar dish. A sensitive radar dish can pick up good information or bad information. It still rests on the individual to act responsibly with what he or she's been given. This is where SRF has gone wrong. It encourages people to abandon their independent thinking for the sake of loyalty and devotion. What many ex-members are trying to do is experiment with keeping the best of both worlds -- amping up with Kriya without surrendering one's own authenticity. This often means a wholesale break from the organization and its fascistic reliance on style over substance. Each person has to handle it in their own way.


Finally, there are those who experience no results and claim the technique actually ruins lives. This is naive. It's like saying, "Hey Joe! you've been practicing piano for years, why are you still just an amateur. Shouldn't you being booking recitals at Carnegie Hall? How come you aren't even half as good a player as Vladimir Ashkenazy?"

Now, let's say a music academy comes along and advertises: "With our patented technique, we can have you playing piano at the same level as Ashkenzy in five years." So Joe puts his money down, and in five years all he gets a gig doing musicals for the school of the deaf because nobody else wants him. Now Joe's depressed because life didn't work according to his plans. Who's to blame? The academy for making false claims but also Joe for being gullible.

The "frightening" truth is that we're all creative beings. What we get out of life is to a high degree dependent on what choices we make and how we implement those choices. Adding weight to this is the environment and unforeseeable events. But there it is. I think Kriya is still an excellent tool if used artfully.

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Science has not provided any convincing evidence for the existence or otherwise of any measurable property that would set the Cremonese instruments apart from the finest violins made by skilled craftsman today. Indeed, some leading soloists do occasionally play on modern instruments. However, the really top soloists - and, not surprisingly, violin dealers, who have a vested interest in maintaining the Cremonese legend of intrinsic superiority - remain utterly unconvinced.

Maybe there is an essential aspect of violin quality that we are still failing to recognize. Many violinists say they can distinguish an instrument with a fine "Italian Cremonese sound" from one with, say, a more "French" tone, such as my Vuillaume violin. But we still do not know how to characterize such properties in meaningful physical terms.

What we need is more research, with high-quality violinists working with psycho-acousticians, scientists and sympathetic violin makers, to make further progress in solving this challenging and fascinating problem.

physicsweb.org/article/world/13/4/8

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Maybe there is an essential aspect of Kriya that we are still failing to recognize. Many yogis say they can experience finer energies and expansive states of consciousness using the technique. But we still do not know how to characterize such properties in meaningful physical terms.

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that neat little trinket that's suppose to do so many wonderful things, and when we actually get it, we find out that it's a piece of junk basically

not what it was claimed to be

a fool that's been duped.

the thing that's being pawned off on you directly

if someone is trying to sell a shiny rock

then you don't see that you just have a cold rock in your hands.

This is how Kriya is given the illusion of working

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It is not much of an advertisement for your own spiritual practices (whatever they are or were) tobe so antagonistic and disrespectful to the spiritual beliefs and practices of others, by the way.

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