# Kriya Yoga Exposed  ## Metadata - Author: [[SantataGamana]] - Full Title: Kriya Yoga Exposed - Category: #books ## Highlights - Nirvikalpa Samadhi is simply Manolaya, a temporary dissolution of the mind. The mind gets dissolved, just like in deep dreamless sleep, but eventually comes back. ([Location 119](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=119)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - I advise you to read his whole book, which has four parts. You can find it on his website, www.kriyayogainfo.net, which also has free videos and other things. ([Location 255](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=255)) - Sushumna Nadi goes from the Root Chakra up to the head, and then curves down to the heart-zone via Amrita Nadi (don’t confuse this heart-zone with the Heart Chakra). This means Amrita Nadi is an extension of Sushumna Nadi. ([Location 325](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=325)) - “Take the case of bhakti. I approach Ishvara [God] and pray to be absorbed in Him. I then surrender myself in faith and by concentration. What remains afterward? In the place of the original ‘I’ perfect self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. This is the highest form of parabhakti (supreme bhakti), prapti (surrender) or the height of vairagya [dispassion].” ([Location 418](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=418)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - True Spirituality is for going beyond time, space and the whole (Formless Samadhi; Nirvikalpa, which is temporary, and Sahaja, which is permanent, Full Realization). ([Location 464](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=464)) - He says that without diksha (initiation), sadhana is useless. This is another Indian Guru dogma. ([Location 495](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=495)) - The First Kriya is to stabilize and still the mind (phase 1), and the Final Kriya is to turn it toward itself (phase 2), until all that is left is our Bliss Consciousness. ([Location 752](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=752)) - Kriya Pranayama Instructions: 1-      Sit cross-legged in your normal position. No need for Padmasana or Siddhasana. Just an easy, relaxing cross-legged position. Do Khechari Mudra if you can. 2-     Pay attention to the point between your eyebrows (Third-Eye). Always keep your attention there during this practice. Don’t move 1 cm away from the Third-Eye. 3-     Inhale naturally while mentally chanting Om six times in the Third-Eye. 4-     Exhale naturally while mentally chanting Om six times in the Third-Eye. 5-     Your breathing doesn’t need to be effortful, with force. Just natural breathing. With time it will get longer, and it will naturally transform itself into the slow Ujjayi breathing (ocean breathing). 6-     Do this 108 times (1 full mala). ([Location 843](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=843)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - There is a helpful video on how to do Maha Mudra at RealYoga.info/resources. ([Location 874](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=874)) - Often Kriya has been reduced to mostly seeking and searching for experiences like “entering the star,” “penetrating Kutastha” and things like that. This might bring many ecstatic experiences and higher states of consciousness, but none of these will bring true permanent Liberation from this ego dream illusion-misery. ([Location 965](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=965)) - You know you exist right? How do you know it? Abide there, in that knowingness. This will shower bliss in your heart and you will just stay with that bliss. It will get bigger and bigger until it will eventually melt the mind into the Heart. This is the Parvastha state, blissful being. Just being in this tranquil Blissful Being is the practice. Just being aware of being, of existing, abiding in your natural Presence, being conscious of being present. ([Location 1004](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=1004)) - No experience has to happen; as long as you stay as the Beingness-Witness, you will dissolve your ego-mind. ([Location 1114](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0764HP5L8&location=1114))