# Kriya Yoga by Swami Yogananda ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51gXho7fdhL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Swami Yogananda]] - Full Title: Kriya Yoga by Swami Yogananda - Category: #books ## Highlights - The purpose of Kriya is to magnetize the spine by circulating life current lengthwise around it, and thereby withdrawing life current from the senses and involuntary organs and concentrating it in the spine. This also helps to change the center of consciousness from the body and senses to the spine. ([Location 95](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BWF3XHY&location=95)) - Tags: [[favorite]] [[pink]] - The duration of inhalation, with the thought of pulling the breath and current upward, must be ten to 15 counts. ([Location 104](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BWF3XHY&location=104)) - sending the breath and current over the forehead, through the cerebrum and on down the back of the spinal column to the coccyx. ([Location 106](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BWF3XHY&location=106)) - Tags: [[pink]] - This converts the entire spine into a magnet which draws all the bodily current away from the senses and nerves. The five telephones of the senses — touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight — are thus disconnected and the attention freed from the invasion of the senses. This is also the greatest psycho-physical method for actually reversing the searchlights of life forces, consciousness and the senses from matter to spirit. ([Location 124](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BWF3XHY&location=124)) - Drawing up and feeling a cool current and the breath within the inside of the spine, feeling a cool current from the coccyx to the point between the eyebrows, and spraying the current and breath as tepid over the back of the spinal tube from the point between the eyebrows down to the coccyx is equal to one compete Kriya exercise. This exercise should be performed from one to fourteen times in immediate succession, morning and evening. ([Location 127](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BWF3XHY&location=127)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - By practicing Kriya correctly 14 times, morning and evening, while in good health, the spine, brain and mind become completely changed. To bring about an equivalent change through natural evolution requires one year. Consequently, by practicing Kriya fourteen times in the morning and fourteen times in the evening, two years of natural evolution can be achieved in one day. ([Location 160](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BWF3XHY&location=160)) - Tags: [[pink]] [[favorite]] - With fingers interlocked and placed over knees, draw current upward to the sound of "Hau" as in Kriya. ([Location 187](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BWF3XHY&location=187)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Hold breath. Knit eyebrows tightly and quickly. Press eyeballs gently so they do not revolve or rotate. Press all fingers firmly, closing mouth, nostrils, ears and eyes. Count from one to 12 or 25, holding breath, and see the revolving light of the spiritual eye ([Location 205](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BWF3XHY&location=205))