Khechari Mudra

Khechari Mudra

‘Kha’ means sky and ‘Char’ means to move. ‘Khechari’ thus means to move in the sky. The sky may be an outside one or the one that is inside human body. It is said that a yogi who has mastered Khechari Mudra can move anywhere in the sky. That’s why it is given the name ‘Khechari Mudra’. By the practice of this Mudra the Yogi is free from fainting, hunger, thirst and laziness. He is free from diseases, decay, old age and death. This Mudra makes one an Oordhvaretas. As the body of the Yogi is filled with nectar, he will not die even by virulent poison. This Mudra gives Siddhis to Yogins. Khechari is the best of all Mudras. Khechari Mudra can be performed by inverting the tongue and entering it in the nasal cavity. Many teachers suggest to lengthen the tongue before performing actual Khechari Mudra by the process of Chedan (dissecting) and Dohan (milking). But in Kriya Yoga such methods of lengthening the tongue are prohibited. The great Kriya master Lahiri Mahashaya says that Khechari Mudra is attained automatically in Kriya Yoga.

How it works?

Beyond the nasal cavity and the two eyebrows, there is a gland, which performs several functions in the human body. Of the many activities governed by this master gland are the main activities of breathing and rejuvenation of the entire glandular system. The hormones it produces play an important part in controlling the activities of the heart system and an overall health of the body. This is the functionality of this gland. Now, we shall study the potential of using this gland in the physical, mental and the spiritual progress of a person. The Yoga practitioners have experienced multiple expressions when the tip of the tongue is touched to this gland. This touch also creates a secretion, which is called 'Amrit' in the scriptures.  Tasting this secretion leads to a state beyond death. This also supports the health. For attaining this state, Lahiri Mahashaya has prescribed to place the tongue in the nasal cavity. The hormonal secretions from this gland control the activities of heart. When the breathing becomes poised, the Pranas (life current) are also poised. With this the mind also becomes peaceful. The pranas and the mind have a great physical relationship. If one gets excited, the other follows. Thus, with the above method, the equanimity of the pranas is possible. This is the ultimate limit of the physical activity. When the tongue reaches the glandular system, a mental process is also triggered. The limit of this process is until the equanimity of the mind. But this process is slightly different than the above physical process. It is earlier explained that when the tongue reaches that place, there is creation of a typical kind of experience. This experience is the experience of bliss. Though this experience is triggered within the body portal, however, is also linked to the mental realm as well. In the Scriptures it is explained that the experience of the bliss within this body is a glimpse of the Brahmananda alone. Thus, with the experience of bliss, the mind is involved with this experience and resolves to follow it. For following this experience, one has to shun the external world. The mind also gets absolved of the external world, since now it is for the lookout for the experience of ãnanda more condensed than the ãnanda of the external world. During the process of this peaceful joy, the mind remains stable. When we combine the physical stability of prãnas and the mental stability so attained in the peaceful joy, a greater realm of stability is arisen in the Bhãva-mana, the emotional mind. This state leads to the highest goal of the spiritual world. Now we shall discuss the automatic achievement of the Khechari Mudrã

Living Divinity

Dear Reader,

There are thousands of monk across the world, very small percentage of them are enlightened, most of the enlightened monks choose to stay away from the world and worldly people. Very few of them choose to stay in the world and to help spiritual aspirant. My guru - Gyanswami is one of those enlightened monks who have chosen to stay in this world, work and earn his own bread, be a family person and help people like me and you to cross the ocean of illusion. I am grateful to my Guru for blessing me with Kriya Diksha, and also grateful to Mahavatar Babaji who sent him to help the spiritual aspirants. I am posting my Guru’s life journey hoping it will inspire spiritual aspirants. As of today (Feb-2010) Guru Gyan Swami is working with a company called RSB Transmission in Pune, India and lives with his family.

Following is the life journey of my param Guru Gyanswami in his own words:
My first meeting with my divine Guru – Mahavatar Babaji

When I was in first year of Electrical Engineering in Bihar College of Engineering, Patna in the state of Bihar I suffered from heart disease. Three valves of my heart were in bad condition. The doctor had announced that this boy will not live more than three months. In 1960s there were no valve transplantation surgeries taking place in India. The doctor consulted was one of the top doctors in state of Bihar, later in 1990s during BJP Government in India he was the health minister. Knowing that my son will die within three months my parents were in grief. In India one of the greatest misfortunes for a father is to see his son’s final rituals during his life time. I thought instead of dying in front of my parents and other family members if I go away from home they will have a hope that my son will come back one day alive. So I left my home without informing any one in the family. The village I lived is near the boarder of India and Nepal, I crossed the boarder and entered in Nepal and started going into deep forest towards Tibet. After walking like this for a long period of time I was very tired and in the evening time I almost fainted under a tree. I had no energy to walk any further or even stand up, it was almost certain to me that now this was the end of my life. No one is going to come and save me, I am going to die either due to hunger or some wild animal will kill and eat me in the night. I closed my eyes and started waiting for the end of my life, but I was surprised to hear a voice, it was the voice of a young man, he looked like a monk. He told me in Hindi language that “you are not going to die; you will give lectures and teach the yoga to thousands”. I was surprised to see some one in the deep forest and speaking Hindi language. Normally the region I was in was near Tibet, so people know either Nepali language or Tibetan Language, but this young monk was speaking very good Hindi. I was not in position to speak or even believe him what he was telling me. But I asked him in my broken language that I can’t speak, by birth I was not able to speak properly, even if I have to tell my name to some one I needed a pen and paper. He asked me to follow him; I had no other choice so I started following him. He took me to a cave near by, and then he took a pot made of stone, poured some water into the pot from near by water fall and started steering it with a wooden shaft. The water in the pot became thick white liquid. He gave it to me and asked me to drink it. As soon as I drank it I felt better, all the fatigue disappeared. He asked me to stay in the cave, I stayed there for three to four days, everyday he used to give me that liquid, and I started becoming healthier. After few days he told me to go back. I left that place and came back home. Everyone in my home was happy to see me coming back alive and healthy, my heart disease was totally gone. The doctors were surprised to see my case; they said that this is a miracle.I went back to college and continued my college studies. At this time I did not know anything about that young monk. I thought he must be a villager, who knew some herbs. I thanked god to send him to me to save my life.


The same monk comes and meet me in my hostel:

After I came back to the college, my health was becoming better day by day. The heart disease had disappeared and the problem of stammering also vanished. I was able to speak very fluently. I started taking part in group discussions and won the debate for speaking in favor of and against the topic of debate. A few months later, when I was studying in my rental room with Rajnikant – the son of my god father Dr. B.D. Sharma, Rajnikant told me that a monk has come to meet you.I went downstairs to see who had come; I was surprised to see that this was the same person I met earlier in the forest who cured my heart diseases. But I was not in position to believe that this monk was able to locate me and come to my room. I invited him to my room upstairs. Within a few minutes he told Rajnikat to go downstairs and bring some flowers. After Rajnikant went downstairs, the monk stood up and caught my right hand and touched it to his forehead and asked me “are you still not believing??” out of fear and astonishment I replied yes I am believing you, but in side I was feeling very difficult to believe. While Rajnikant was away the monk quickly gave me many instructions – what to do in my life. He showed me how to recognize him in future by looking at raised fingers of his both the leg. In the mean time Rajnikant came back with flowers in his hand, the monk immediately changed the topic of discussion. He started giving us blessings like any other normal monk and started leaving. I and Rajnikat planned to follow him wherever he was going. After coming out from our room he went downstairs and started walking on the main road, we followed him just behind him. After we walked few steps behind him, in front of our eyes he vanished in the air!!! We were shocked to see some one disappearing in front of our eyes… Few months later this incident I read the book Autobiography of a Yogi written by Paramahansa Yogananda, when I read about Babaji and saw his photograph, I immediately recognize that the monk I met was none other then Mahavatar Babaji Himself!!! Without telling any one I decided that after completing engineering I will go to Himalayas to meet Babaji.

Years in Himalayas:

After completing my engineering I left for Himalayas to meet Babaji again.He had given me a clue to recognize him by his raised toes of both the legs. I asked many monks about Babaji in Himalayas and looked at their feet to find the monk with raised toes. After few weeks I met a group of monks, when I asked them about Babaji, they laughed at me and offered me to stay with them. They use to make laugh at me saying that “oh so you have come to find Babaji”, I was sincere in my search for the one who gave me the life. One day I noticed that all the monks suddenly started behaving as if they were about to welcome some one, I saw a familiar monk entering the cave I looked at his feet and found the raised toes. I ran to him and bowed down at his holy feet, he was my master – Mahavatar Babaji. He initiated me in Kriya Yoga. I stayed with group of monks in Himalayas; they taught me many secret yoga techniques including par kaya pravesh, etc.

The Yogis I met in Himalayas:

I met many monks in Himalayas; their age must be in more than few hundred years. One of the months used to call me by name “Vivekananda”, once when I was seating with him near a fire, he told me ‘Vivekananda – you like dry fruits, correct?” I said yes, next moment he put his hand in fire and took out dry fruits and gave me. I ate them, they were real. But I doubted him; he gave me some more dry fruits in the same way. Again I thought that he must be hiding dry fruits in side the fire. He was able to read my mind, this time he asked me what you get from the railway station during the journey. I replied ‘hot puri and potato sabji’ (hot fried bread and cooked potato), immediately he put his hand in fire and took out the ‘hot puri and potato sabji’, I believed him and ate the delicious meal in the cave. Great yogis can transform one form of energy to any other form of energy by their will power.The Himalayan monks knew every thing about the scriptures – Vedas, Upanishads etc without reading any books. When yogis connect themselves to the divine world, they do not need to read books the knowledge flows through them.

Babaji’s message:

In 1975; after around 2 years of my stay in Himalayas with Babaji and other saints, one day Babaji told me to return back to home and start family life. I was reluctant to leave Babaji, I told him that what will I do without you, you are everything for me. Babaji replied that “my dignity is due to you”. He said, you should earn your own bread by working and spread yoga without charging any fees. Like a mother does not charge money to love her baby, the divinity does not need to charge money for teaching the liberating technique of Kriya Yoga.“Today people have commercialized the yoga by charging money; the yoga is seen as alternate to the medicine. But the real purpose of yoga is self-realization. You should earn your own bread and teach Kriya yoga without charging money”

My first Job Interview:

Name of the company – M/S Balaju Yantra Shala, Kathmandu, Nepal joint venture of a Switzerland company SATA and Nepal’s NIDC. Interviewers were hypnotized, they asked me to join from the next day.

The Great Yogis of India I have met:

Laal Baba:

One of my collegue told me about his guru, when I went to meet him. He asked every one to go out, he showed me his real form, and he told me that everyone comes to ask for worldly thing, but I will give you spiritual power. He transmitted power to me to help other people. He used to meet me daily when he was in the city. He told his disciple that if I don’t come for long time you go to shivalaya and pray to lord shiva that you want to meet me, so one of his disciple prayed near Baidyanath Dham (one of the 12 jyotir ling) and baba appeared next day.

Osho:

One of the days while I was in college I went to a theater for a matinee show. There was some time left before the show started and I saw a group of people listening to a talk by an elderly person with a beard. I was just inquisitive and headed towards the crowd. There was a spiritual talk going on and he said “I see that lot of young people are going to the movies but only old people had gathered here to attend to my talk, I would make spirituality so interesting and exciting that even young people would flock to get it.”. I was shocked for a second as if he was speaking to me. I wanted to visit osho and I found out the details that he was staying in Bombay at that time. I went to visit him and Ma Laxmi let me in and I saw osho and he recognized that I was Babaji’s disciple. I used to hug him and kiss him in the foot with love and he was also very fond of me. He asked whether I had any money with me, I said no I don’t. He called in Ma Laxmi and asked her to provide anything that is needed for my stay. So in this manner, I visited Osho several times and found that he was a great master with a distinctive style, charisma and class of his own.

Satya Sai Baba:

One day my father received a telegram from my brother’s office – Air force in Madras/Chennai that he was missing. My father was worried, because such news is generally followed by more bad news. Father asked me to immediately go to Madras to find out about my brother, I started for Madras by train. My family members are great devotes of Satya Sail Baba, but I was not the great believer. On the way to Madras I prayed to Satya Sai Baba that if you are so great please bring my brother back from wherever he is before I reach to his office. If this becomes the truth I will come to you and rub my forehead on your feet. When I reached my brother’s office in Madras, the office personals told me that your brother is back and alive, I was relieved. I believed that Satya Sai Baba listened to my prayer, so I decided to meet him to complete my promise which I made to my self. I went to his Bangalore ashram and set along with thousands of people for his darshana. Sri Satya Sai Baba came and walked by with his hand in blessings posture. He stood before me for a while, but at the sight of him I lost what I was suppose to do, I kept looking at him with my palms folded. Then he started walking away from me, I realized that I lost my chance to rub my forehead at his feet. He went away few hundred foots from me. I was thinking in my mind what should I do? To my surprise, Sri Satya Sai Baba turned back and came towards me, again he stood in front of me, without speaking a word he lifted his garb so that his foot was visible and brought his foot near me, he knew what was going on in my mind.

Devraha Baba:

When I visited my inlaws’ house in Aligarh, I went to meet him with my family in 1990, my son was 9 years of age. I my wife, son and father in law went to see Krishna temple in Vrindavan, we went to other side of Yamuna river. It was closed so decided to visit Devraha Baba. When we went to meet him, he called only me keeping my family waiting outside. He gave me some instructions which I can not disclose in the book, after 30 mintues he asked me to call my family. He blessed all of us. After nine days of my meeting he left his body.

J. Krishnamurthy:

An enlightened master of India. I read books written by him. When I was working in Tata in Jamshedpur I came to know that J.K is coming to Banarasa to deliver lecture. I went to listen to him with one of my friend, some body told me if you get physical tough of great master you get help in spiritual progress. The first day was cultural program, I thought he must be sitting in some special seat, but I was surprised to see him coming and seating with me, he was with me for 1.5 hours. I used to listen to him for a week, he use to walk in campus everyday. When I saw him in the campus, I bowed him and thinking that you bless me, he suddenly turned towards me and came to me and blessed me for few minutes. It was a great feeling to be blessed by such a great saint. After a year of my meeting he left his body.

Anandamoyi Maa:

When I was in final year of my college, once I had gone to Varanasi (Kashi) and I was stying in Dakshinamurty Math. One of the monks took me to the Ashram of Ma in Babaras, that time Mother was visiting for short time. Mother cought hold of my hand and blessed me, lots of love and blessing for me for my future course of my life. She knew that I am going to work for Babaji to spread Kriya Yoga.

The Ocean comes to touch my feet in Puri:

Darshana of Loard krishna in Jagganath Puri:

What is Kriya Yoga?

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Kriya Yoga means "Union with divinity by performing certain action (kriya)" or in other words "to expand our consciousness to the infinite"

Kriya Yoga is mentioned in Gita by Lord Sri Krisha in Verse 4.29 : "Offering exhaling breath into inhaling breath and offering exhaling breath into inhaling breath"

Kriya Yoga is divided in two major parts - Kriya Initial and Kriya Diksha.

Kriya Initial:
Kriya Initial involves Cosmic Exericse, Pranayama, Houng Sau Meditation and Aum Meditation techniques described below. Detaied description can be found at following link: Kriya Initial

Note: Information provided here is only for those devotees who are initiated by Guruji.

Cosmic Exercse (Energization Exercise):
A series of exercises developed by ancient yogis of India to prepare the body for meditation. Regular practice promotes mental and physical relaxation and develops dynamic will power. The technique enables one to consciously draw energy into the body, purifying and strengthening it, and making it easier to direct the energy inward in meditation. The set consists of 38 exercises. Its based on the principles of 'Tense with will and relax and feel' and 'Double Breathing'. Various exercises involve tensing various parts of the body gradually with low, medium and finally high tension till the body part or muscle vibrates with energy and then gradually relaxing it. You will notice a perceptible lightness in this part. A lot of others exerices involve tensing/relaxing mentioned above accompanied with double inhalation followed by double exhalation or moving certain parts with double inhalation/exhalation.

Pranayama:
12 Pranayamas with equal duration of inhale, hold adn exhale

Houng Sau Meditation:
A simple but highly effective technique that helps to develop one's latent powers of concentration. Through practice of this technique one learns to withdraw thought and energy from outer distractions so that they may be focused on any goal to be achieved or problem to be solved. Or one may direct that concentrated attention toward a deepening perception of the Divine Consciousness within.

Aum Meditation:
A powerful technique of meditation that expands one's awareness beyond the limitations of body and mind, and leads to direct personal experience of that Divine Consciousness which underlies and upholds all life.

Kriya Diksha:
In this stage student learns the actual Kriya Pranayama as described in 26th chapter of the book "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda. Kriya Pranayama accelerates evolution of human brain or the consciousness.
Why Kriya Yoga?

A man or woman has awareness about him/her self and surrounding by means of five senses which are touch, test, smell, hear and vision through various organs or parts of our body. However these bodily sensors have many limitations; for example we can see and hear only a limited spectrum of frequency through our eyes and ears respectively. We can not see or hear what has already happened in past or what is going to happened in future. Moreover in different psychological condition we perceive same thing or incident in totally different way. Hence we perceive the world based on the consciousness level of our mind. If we can expand our consciousness to infinite then we can perceive the infinite universe, we can perceive the past and the future.

Kriya Yoga is the fastest (jet speed) way to achieve the infinite consciousness. In a very short time Kriya Yogi starts experiencing spiritual phenomenon. Please contact our Guruji Shri Gyan Swami if you want to learn Kriya Yoga to achieve an infinite consciousness.


How Kriya Yoga Works?

When a sperm and ovum becomes one to create a body; they first create medulla oblongata. The consciousness enters into human body through medulla oblongata. Life force flows outward from medulla oblongata through spine to the senses. And hence we perceive the world through our five senses and as a result our perception about the world is restricted to the limitations of these five sensors.

Kriya Yoga helps to reverse the flow of life currents; hence it starts flowing upward through the spine. When a Kriya Yogi is able to direct the flow of life current from his or her medulla oblongata to the Christ center between the eyebrows; he or she goes beyond the senses and achieves infinite consciousness.

Mahavatar Babaji

Babaji is the greatest Himalayan Yogi. He is known as Mahavatar; which means great-incarnation. Babaji has retained his physical body since many centuries or millenniums. There is no historical reference to Babaji; the great guru has never openly appeared in any century, but helped many great spiritual masters. No information about Babaji’s family or birthplace has ever been discovered. However one can experience his existence by devotion. Babaji is very kind, one who prays him gets his blessings without fail.

The divine mission

Babaji's mission is to assist prophets in carrying out special dispensations. He has given the gift of Kriya Yoga to the world through well known masters like Adi Shankaracharya, Kabir Saheb, Lahiri Mahashaya, Sri Yukteshwar Giri and Paramahansa Yogananda. In today's world Babaji is speaking through our beloved Guruji – Gyan swami; he has been blessed by Babaji in person to become a living Enlightened Master. Gyan Swami is a living example of house holder master; He retired as a Chief Manager in 2008 and now continuing same responsibilities in a new role as a Peoplesoft Consultant with RSB Transmissions (I) Ltd Pune. RSB Group, India and teaches Kriya Yoga to those who seek self realization. Contact him if you want to achieve self realization by means of Kriya Yoga. There is no fee or donation for learning Kriya yoga; read more about him in Guru Gyan Swami section.

The Authentic Kriya Yoga

Despite all tall claims by others, no one is perhaps as authorised as Shibendu Lahiri (born 1939), the great grand son of famous house holder Yogi Lahiri Mahasaya (1828-1895), to spread the authentic teachings and techniques of Kriya Yoga in the world today.

Yet he says in utter humility that wise wields no authority and those in authority are not wise! Organisations assert authority, but authenticity may be lacking. Mobilisation may create a mafia, but the most sacred may remain untouched. Cultism has no place in matters deeply spiritual.

Lahiri Mahasaya (Full Name: Shyama Charan Lahiri) became known to the truth seekers all over the world through Paramahamsa Yogananda's famous book "Autobiography of a Yogi", which has been translated in many languages.

Shibendu has the distinction of receiving the original Kriya process in the age old Rishi-tradition of India, that is, from father to son - generation after generation. Thus the process here passed, through knowledge and genes, from Shyama Charan to Tinkori to Satya Charan to Shibendu who was initiated in 1960 by his father Late Satya Charan Lahiri at the family shrine "Satyalok" D 22/3, Chousatti Ghat, Varanasi - 221 001 (India).

Kriya Yoga : Kriya means action and Yoga means integration. Kriya Yoga emphasises integration of separative consciousness (generated by unceasing movement of thought) with an awakenedness (that is, a non-elective holistic attention free from mental fragmentations) through actions of perception and not through the activities of conceptualisation.

Kriya deconditions and sets the seeker free from the past karma. It transforms fundamentally the gross ego-centre of the seeker into a subtle individual uniqueness which also includes universality. It brings harmony with the wholeness of life by piercing through the ignorance of the ways of self. It is a unique combination of Hatha-Raja-Laya Yoga. It settles the seeker in his natural state in which his body receives instructions only form glands and Chakras. Thought does not interfere as interloper to create psychosomatic problems and pursuits. Kriya Yoga does not tell stories, does not indulge in miracle mongering to keep the seekers amused in poor and paralyzing consolations. Organisations promoting surmises and fictions are stragglers from the path of truth. Kriya Yoga encourages seekers to investigate if experiencer and the experienced can become one unitary movement without any dichotomy whatsoever.

Like his ancestors, Shibendu Lahiri is also a house-holder and has passed through all aspects being a human so that spiritual journey does not appear too steep for the seekers. He received high university education and supported his family well, through remunerative jobs. His two daughters and their husbands are specialised medical doctors and his only son, also married, is an erudite engineer.

Since 14 January 1988, Shibendu spends his time sharing the teachings and the kriyas all around the world. Year in and year out, he travels at the invitation of devotees and disciples. Countries he has covered so far are: USA (including Hawaii and Puerto Rico), Canada, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, South Africa, Mauritius, Chile (South America), Norway, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Bulgaria, Russia, Nepal, Sweden, Netherland, England, New Zealand, Brazil, Greece and of course, various places in India. Many other nationals also came to him during his kriya-Yoga programmes in many places.

Shibendu Lahiri has no organisation, institution, sect or cult. He has no ambition to influence anybody. He only invites seekers to share the insight which flowered, generation after generation, through Kriya process. His yearning is to see that human beings live in peace and amity without ache, agony and animosity, without this monstrous culture of killing and being killed in the name of some fragmented flag or phoney fanatic idea in the name of religion.

Have You Sincerely and Genuinely Considered:

- How far can discipline and personal effort get you?
- What is Grace and is it absolutely necessary for Self-Knowledge?
- Is your Ego really so bad?
- Must I love everyone, or just do my duty?
- How can I keep love from diminishing into attachment or dissolving into anger or indifference?
- Why is life so full of desire, aversion and fear?
- Is there ever a need for fear?
- How can I learn to use my willpower effectively to overcome my resistances?
- Is there a Higher Will for my life, and if so, how can I learn to connect with it?
- Is what you can “see,” even in meditation, ever the true Self?





Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas is now offering to initiated and non-initiated students of Yoga, a course of lessons. Designed to answer such questions as these, this course will not only deepen the understanding of the principles and practices of Yoga, but will hasten the process of Yoga.

In our pursuit of our Divine Self we must seek for change in our human nature. But rather than trying to change our nature, more often we merely attempt to reconcile our habits of desire, aversion and fear. So dark elements along with light continue to seek manifestation and arise in the context of our life. The Grace Course provokes us to delve into our desires, aversions and fears in order to reveal to us our truth and falseness.

By learning the source of our repetitive thoughts, endless desires and stifling aversions and fears, we become aware of how the demands of the ego influence us negatively at all moments in any situation. Instead of protecting us, the ego, which is really quite fearful, is keeping us blocked from our true nature, our true potential and our true work in the world. As ingrained habits and instincts are probed, weaknesses are amplified. This process is personal and profound and real work.

The primal strength of the ego’s desire to exist is too strong to overcome without the support of Grace. Grace is the only means by which vital motivations of the ego can be replaced by higher consciousness from the Soul.



Grace is a force of nature like the elements and like the elements is always present, whether we acknowledge it or not. Grace is always available to anyone who remains open to it. We must internally prepare to remain open to Grace.

This course is designed to widen your perspective of what your yogic practice truly must become, a process of bringing awareness into your thoughts, your actions and into your life. It introduces the right use of will, which can direct the practice of Yoga to benefit you personally, but in addition, can connect you with a Higher Will, which works to widen you, so as to benefit your family, friends and the world at large.

The practices included will incorporate the teachings of Babaji's Kriya Yoga-Action with Awareness- into your daily life. These teachings are drawn from the works of Babaji and the Siddhas, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The total of these teachings reflect the Yogic tradition of Babaji's Kriya Yoga.

If sincerely and genuinely approached, this course of lessons will affect change at various levels of your consciousness, as your awareness and love grows.

KRIYA YOGA PILGRIMAGE TO SOUTH INDIA

Due to the overwhelming interest in the January 2009 pilgrimages, M. G. Satchidananda and Durga Ahlund will lead another group of Kriya Yoga students on a pilgrimage to sacred sites, ashrams and places of interest in South India, including places associated with Babaji's life. It will be an unforgettable experience in the homeland of yoga, which will inspire you and enable you to appreciate the rich cultural tapestry, which has given birth to Babaji's Kriya Yoga. This is a new itinerary, which will interest previous year’s pilgrims as well.

In a pilgrimage, one seeks to come close to the Divine by visiting, worshipping and meditating in sacred places which provide a terrestrial "doorway" to the infinite and the absolute. One may easily experience the "Divine Presence" in such places, which have been sanctified by the spiritual practices of many yogis and saints. During this pilgrimage we will visit a variety of such places. There will be group practice of Kriya Yoga at least twice daily to deepen your experience.

We have scheduled this pilgrimage to coincide with the time of year when the weather is the most pleasant: warm but not too hot. The hotels have also been carefully selected for their Western style comfort and facilities. Ground transportation will be in a comfortable air-conditioned bus.