What is Babaji's Kriya Yoga?

Kriya Yoga: Insights Along the Path
Marshall Govindan and Jan (Durga) Ahlund

My wife, Jan "Durga" Ahlund and I have recognized for many years the need for a book that would explain to both those interested in learning Kriya Yoga and those already embarked on its path, why they should practice it, what are the difficulties, and how to overcome them. We believe that this book will help prepare everyone for the challenges and opportunities that Kriya Yoga provides. Every one of us faces the resistance of our human nature, ignorance as to our true identity, and karma, the consequences of years of conditioning by our thoughts, words and actions. By cultivating aspiration for the Divine, rejecting egoism and its manifestations, and surrendering to our higher Self, pure Witness consciousness, we can overcome this resistance, our karma and the many obstacles on the path. But, to do so, we need much support and insight along the way.

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The Yoga Toolbox - An everyday guide for shaping your future
Jan (Durga) Ahlund

Offers lessons in simple tools to live a long, healthy and happy life. It is written for those who wish to develop their understanding of Yoga and Meditation. Yoga and meditation can bring relief and promote healing from the effects of a stress and bad habits on the physical body, the emotions and the mind. Each of the fourteen different sessions you will learn to practice is designed to address a specific objective that will allow you to shape your future. The objectives include:

1. gaining access to unlimited power
2. purifying the five bodies or sheaths
3. developing concentration through controlled breathing
4. becoming flexible in life, starting with the spine
5. connecting to “the inner sun” for self healing
6. bending forward into stress and change
7. removing tension and blockages in the joints
8. developing a strong nervous system
9. learning to bend backwards, digest and let go
10. reversing depression or sadness
11. stand up, be centered and act dynamically
12. developing deep, restful sleep
13. overcoming negative conditioning
14. mastering the art of meditation
15. using the power of mudras (psycho-physical gestures) to change your life
16. using Yoga-Nidra (deep relaxation and yogic rest) for Self awareness and to re-program your future

New Ebook: "Recovering the Self: Essays on Babaji's Kriya Yoga"
by Nityananda

This ebook lovingly offers personal insights and experiences, which Nityananda has had with Babaji’s Kriya Yoga over his decades of practice. This work describes the origin of this Kriya Yoga path and explains in an easy and interesting way its many different aspects and benefits. It also analyzes the challenges that the student must face, grants understanding of them and proposes different useful suggestions to improve the yogic practice in one’s personal life.

If you are thinking about Initiation into Babaji’s Kriya Yoga, these texts will give you a general view of it, a useful introduction. If you are already initiated, they will support you and guide you in your practice, providing you with a better understanding of the path, the pitfalls inherent in it, and how to advance successfully along it.

The Voice of Babaji: A Trilogy on Kriya Yoga,
2nd edition
V.T.Neelakantan, S.A.A. Ramaiah and Babaji Nagaraj

Sri V.T. Neelakantan recorded verbatim a series of talks given by Satguru Kriya Babaji in 1953. These are a fountain of delight and inspiration, illuminating the Kriya Yoga path towards God realization, unity in diversity and universal love. They also reveal the magnetic personality of Babaji and how he supports us all, with much humour and wisdom. They were originally printed in three volumes: "The Voice of Babaji and Mysticism Unlocked," "Babaji's Masterkey to All Ills, (Kriya)" and "Babaji's Death of Death (Kriya)." Includes the fascinating accounts of the meetings with Babaji in Madras and in the Himalayas by authors V.T. Neelakantan and Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah. Out of print for nearly 50 years, they are profound and important statements from one of the world's greatest living spiritual masters.

Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition
Marshall Govindan

The first authoritative biography of Babaji, the immortal master made famous by Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi", an all-time best seller. Babaji lives today near Badrinath, in the upper Himalayan mountains. His body has not aged since the age of sixteen, when centuries ago he attained the supreme state of enlightenment and divine transformation. This followed his initiation into the scientific art of Kriya Yoga by two deathless masters, the Siddhas Agastyar and Boganathar, who belonged to the "18 Siddha Tradition", famous among the Tamil speaking people of southern India. This rare account, by a longtime disciple, reveals their little known life stories, ancient culture and present mission, as well as how their Kriya Yoga can be used to bring about the integration of the material and spiritual dimensions of life. Clear explanations of the psychophysiological effects of Kriya Yoga and guidelines for its practice are given. It includes verses from the Siddhas' writings with commentary. A book which will inspire you.

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Streaming Video: Babaji’s Kriya Hatha Yoga: Self Realization through Action and Awareness
with Marshall Govindan and Durga Ahlund

20 segments in 2 hours 5 minutes.

Learn the 18 postures developed by Babaji Nagaraj and become aware of what is aware!

View it on your phone, tablet or PC.

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INSPIRATION FOR YOGA
Nityananda

Real Yoga takes us to union with the Self, eternal and joyful, surpassing the nature of our ego, what we think we are. This book, born from practice, seeks to inspire the reader to follow the yogic path of Self-realization, until the goal is reached.

THE RECOGNITION OF OUR OWN HEART: PONDERINGS ON THE PRATYABHIJÑAHRYDAYAM
Joan Ruvinsky

In The Recognition of Our Own Heart: Pratyabhijñahrdayam, non-dual yoga and meditation teacher Joan Ruvinsky offers up a beautifully illustrated interpretive translation of one of the foundational texts of Kashmiri Shaivism — twenty short verses that address fundamental and universal questions. Part poetry, part guidebook, part art, it conveys the richness and incandescence so characteristic of the lineage without losing sight of the last 400 years of philosophical inquiry, spiritual revelation, and scholarship.

"With deep reverence for this 11th-century text, four women sat with all the translations they could find, chanting the Sanskrit, studying, analyzing, and finally sensing and feeling into each line until there was consensus, a mutual “ah,” and shimmer of recognition in the heart. Ruvinsky’s poetic ponderings, sourced from this deep exploration with her beloved colleagues, her own intuitive understanding, and burnished in the wisdom of pure consciousness, is her final gift to us. I am ever-grateful."
- Amy Weintraub; Founder, LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute and author, Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists

ENLIGHTENMENT: It's Not What You Think
Marshall Govindan

Enlightenment: It's Not What You Think reveals how you can replace the perspective of the ego – the habit of identifying with the body, emotions, and thoughts – with a new perspective: the Witness, that of your soul … pure consciousness. With compelling logic, practices for everyday life, and guided meditations, the book explains how you can free yourself from suffering, enjoy inner peace, and find intuitive guidance.

The essays in this book explore the descriptions of enlightenment in various spiritual and wisdom traditions, the process of becoming enlightened, and how to overcome the inner obstacles to the achievement of that goal.

"With this work, Enlightenment, Govindan delivers the gifts of siddha masters to our doorsteps."
- Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Ph. D; Spiritual Head, Himalayan Institute; Teacher, author, humanitarian, and visionary spiritual leader

New DVD: "The Bhagavad Gita: Values for the 21st Century, a video recorded seminar with Dr. Georg Feuerstein, Ph. D"

Recorded at the Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Ashram in St Etienne de Bolton, Quebec, Canada on June 30, 2001. 6 hours 29 minutes

The Bhagavad Gita or Sacred Song is one or the world’s most important sacred texts. It celebrates the relationship of man with God, the intense joy of Divine Love and the realization of the Self through Yoga. In the form of a dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna on the eve of a battle, Krishna teaches the fearful Arjuna the need for action and the requirement that he – like all mankind – take his place in the world with faith and love.

This is a rare recording, nearly six and one half hours in length, by perhaps the West’s greatest scholar of Yoga in modern times, the late Dr. Georg Feuerstein (1947 to 2012). Those who have enjoyed reading his more than thirty books on the subject of Yoga will enjoy even more listening to and watching one whose great scholarship was uniquely informed by his profound experience of the deeper dimensions of Yoga

New DVD: "Tantra: a video recorded seminar with Dr. Georg Feuerstein, Ph. D"

Recorded at the Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Ashram in St Etienne de Bolton, Quebec, Canada, July 1, 2001. 6 hours 24 minutes.

The spiritual tradition known as tantra, often associated with Kundalini Yoga, teaches that enlightenment must embrace all dimensions of our existence, including the physical. It involves removing subconscious obstacles through various methods, including mantras, hatha yoga, kundalini breathing, and the worship of the divine shakti or power, first externally, and then internally.

This is a rare recording, nearly six and one half hours in length, by perhaps the West’s greatest scholar of Yoga in modern times, the late Dr. Georg Feuerstein (1947 to 2012). Those who have enjoyed reading his more than thirty books on the subject of Yoga will enjoy even more listening to and watching one whose great scholarship was uniquely informed by his profound experience of the deeper dimensions of Yoga.