Letter on Lahiri Baba's Birthday

Sunday, September 30, 2001

My affectionate and divine Soul,

I am Paramahamsa Hariharananda. You require some spiritual talk from me and I am going to write something about Kriya Yoga.

God is one and religions are many. But all the people of the world, of any religion, should also practice Kriya Yoga techniques because Kriya Yoga means, kri + ya - anything you are doing it is done by Supreme Almighty Lord, who is hiding in all human beings of all religions.

God is one. Religions are many. No matter. But Kriya Yoga is based on breath. Breath is life. It is written in the Bible and many spiritual books: breath control is self-control, breath mastery is self mastery, and breathlessness stage is deathlessness stage.

Breath is life. In the Bible, Genesis (1:27; 2:7), it is written that God made man and woman in his own image and breathed into the nostrils the breath of His life. It is why all human beings are alive. Without breath there is no life, just a dead body.

There are 50 types of breath, of which 49 types of breath are giving restlessness. The Supreme Almighty Lord pulls the breath, so everyone should fix the attention on top of the head. With the short breath, you should feel that God is taking the breath. Then, automatically, with the subtle breath, you will get calmness, which is Godliness. With the faint breath no evil work can be done. One inhalation, one exhalation. If you all fix your attention on the top of your head and see that God is taking every short breath then automatically you will get calmness, which is Godliness. You will get purity, perfection, reality, truth and liberation.

Sit calmly. Take one breath and exhale one breath. Search for Him in your head. He is all-pervading, which means that He is in every human being. So, with that short breath all evils will disappear. Only you require practice.

It is like the earthenware pot made with clay. If you immediately keep water inside, it will leak. But if you bake the clay pot in the oven and then put water in it, the water will remain for a longer period. If you boil food with that earthen pot and put it on the fire and give heat below, rice and food will be boiled nicely without any trouble. Similarly, until you learn the technique of Kriya Yoga and you are baked hard in the spiritual fire, you will not be able to carry the milk of spiritual progress. But if you practice it then in every breath you will get calmness. Your whole life will be divine life.

It depends upon practice. You should learn this from the realized Kriya yogi. It is the simplest, easiest, surest and best way. Only take the feeble breath and keep 99% attention on top of your head, then surely you will get reality and liberation. In your every faint breath you will get purity, calmness and liberation. Your every subtle breath will give you divinity. You will feel you are God in human being and human being in God.

Lahiri Baba was a family man. Bhupendranath Sanyal was a family man. In the beginning Shriyukteshwarji was also a family man. They were all practicing Kriya so marvelously. God power was coming in them. By the help of Kriya Yoga you will get foresight and you all can develop this. I was sitting 11 years in seclusion, inside my room and practicing. I also got that stage. Many great people have felt my pulse and saw my pulselessness stage. I have nothing to say. Pulselessness stage means realizing reality, truth, joy and liberation: the fulfillment of human life.

Only if you practice Kriya Yoga whole-heartedly, with love, then surely you will behold the divine goal. I practiced and Babaji came to me, two times in one day and told me that I should not stay in Puri Ashram. "You should spread Kriya Yoga throughout the whole world," he said. "Then the people of the whole world, if they practice it, their life will be fulfilled and they will get all-round development with peace."

This is Kriya Yoga. Within a short period I am expressing all this. It is very difficult to express. You will hear constant sound, have constant pulsation in the body and see light all over the universe. Light will give you everything. You can foresee and you can help many people in the world. In short, I am expressing Kriya Yoga.

Thank you very much to you all. I am bowing to you all because the Supreme Almighty Lord is within you.

In the Hatha Yoga Pradipika 4:34 it is written:

yavat naiva pravishati charan maruta madhya marge

yavat vindur na bhavati dridhah prana vata pravandhat

yavat dhyana sahaja sadrisham jayate naiva tattwam

tawaj janam vadati tad idam dambha mithya pralapah

The meaning is, "If the breath is not very faint and touching inside the brain (pituitary and fontanel), if there is no pin-pointed attention in the fontanel, and if the technique is not simplest, easiest and quickest, with no big words or complicated concepts, your practice is vain and empty."

So this Kriya Yoga is the simplest, quickest and best.

I am again giving love, affection, regard and bowing to everybody.


humble - Hariharananda