Message #46421

[Jitendra Hydonus]

After practicing these techniques from the lessons and reading them for over 40 years I feel like I’m just starting to put together the vast golden knowledge that lies in hundreds of pages here. I remember being checked on the practice of Kriya by monks and nuns at Self-Realization Fellowship. That definitely was a blessing! One of the Sisters there had the psychic development to see the strong color of one of my chakras. Which I knew she was correct because I sing so much and she saw the strength of the color in my throat chakra.

Then Brother Anandamoy checked me out and told me if I really wanted to practice more than 60 Kriyas at a time I could but he looked at me with some amount of astonishment. Later I found out why. I went way back to 24!

Even later still Brother Brahmananda checked my Kriya practice and I noticed how much he attempted to slow me down in the speed of doing one Kriya. He encouraged me though to raise the amount of Kriya’s to 36 a session.

After absorbing lesson 88 I recognized how these lessons are all fit together to complement one another and our meditation practice. Some of the various methods and techniques help in making our practice of others more productive. Lesson 88 certainly helps extend the length of the spaces in between breaths!

Lastly, i used to hear Brother Bhaktananda used to say many times; If you want to stay in tune with the Master; read the SRF lessons one half hour or more a day. Believe me there is so much there to assimilate it is a titanic task in itself!