Pilgrim

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  1. Which books sit on your nightstand?

    I am looking forward to that one being released . It is different. Here is the link sorry should have posted it with the picture this is available now there site is a bit clumsy. https://www.kriya.org/store/new-arrivals/en
  2. Which books sit on your nightstand?

    The Science of Kriya Yoga by Paramahamsa Hariharananda. This is a newly released book I thought would never see the light of day from the organization. In in the past this was only passed around in private between devoted Kriyabans because it was mostly written for those in our lineage. Very pleased to let others know this is authentic and worth purchasing.
  3. No point in talking to a clone by definition your just talking to yourself and even children know if you do that out loud you will be considered crazy.
  4. Which books sit on your nightstand?

    The Gita for Children https://www.amazon.com/Gita-Children-Roopa-Pai/dp/9351950123 It is a remarkably well written book that Adults can learn from as well. It is also in Audio-book format which I highly recommend. It is amazing how the author makes sens of the Gita in everyday plain terms anyone can follow and reveals the Spiritual wealth of India in a way that is comprehensible to all. Truly an amazing piece of work.
  5. Tridaya vs mopai. And 9 palaces chi gong

    I thought it was a Jedi thing specifically Yoda.
  6. Defining the Left and Right

    Not just Apple is correct! It is all of them. Microsoft is one of the worst. They have taken all of the worst aspects of Google, Amazon, Adobe, Facebook and Apple and rolled them into one. Software as a subscription service, do the math you pay big time and the so called improvements for the office suite alone are not worth it. Fact you can run a perpetual license for between 6 and 10 years on average, heck I still see office 2003 being used quite well. in that period of time subscription software will cost you thousands not hundreds. Subscription software is ransomware. Autocad suites cost thousands of dollars annually. It is rediculous. Just make sure to click the privacy button. What a load of shit! Thank god we have uneducated ineffectual septegenarian morons in congress looking into things.
  7. Which books sit on your nightstand?

    Caution if anyone goes seeking this book it is not very well written for the average person interested in these practices. Some practical experience is needed to comprehend what is being shared.
  8. Defining the Left and Right

    He is a prime of example of why corporations need to be neutered. Corporations especially the ones like this who have wormed their way into everyday life have no business dictating morality. They have gotten into the realm of religion now and with the influence they wield over congress it is dangerous. Cook In my opinion has done absolutely nothing other than ride the huge wave of momentum Steve Jobs created. Under this clown 1.Apple has ceased to be innovative and just dribbles out incremental design changes and copies others. 2. Apple has focused on creating more and more cheaply built devices, removing ports and features from it's flagship products. No way Jobs would have approved of a phrase like oh the device is bendable within design limits your warped over priced iPad is perfectly fine as is your bent iPhone because we say so. No way Jobs would have permitted software to purposely hamstring older hardware and make it run slower and consume more battery power. It was only after allot of pressure they took those purposely incorporated features out. Yeah preach morality to someone else ya old lady! 3.Apple has focused on making devices ir-repairable. Apple has also practice blocking perfectly functioning older devices from operating in their own ecology. 4.Apple has focused on profit by charging more and delivering less in the hand. 5. Apple has now made the mistakes of suing their partners and now their partners qualcomm who were solely making the 4G Modem has told them they will not do business with them. https://www.digitaltrends.com/business/apple-vs-qualcomm-news/ 7. Cook has ceaselessly played the moral crusader I guess because he is gay and thinks that makes him more fit to decide what is right and wrong? I guess he thinks reminding the public he is gay gives him street-cred? That he is somehow more sensitive? Please this guy is a corporate rapist out for the almighty buck and would throw anyone under a bus to maximize profits, what an actor. 8. Apple publicly stated yeah you know the $3,000.00 MAC PRO's we have been selling, well yeah we were not putting any effort into them and they are behind what you can get elsewhere but hey keep drinking the Cook Koolaid because we have a new version you can spend $5,000.00 on and feel good about because we put effort into this one. 9. They are careless and dangerous, the new Apple AirPods put out continuous RF without fluctuation that is just as great as a High Range Wireless router far greater than a cell phone and worse because they are worn in the ears essentially in the skull the effects are magnified. Apple are you freaking kidding me?!? https://macintoshhowto.com/hardware/extreme-emf-exposure-from-apple-airpods.html No Thanks! Yeah no love for Cook here and suspect once the Tremendous Momentum of the Visionary Steve Jobs runs out they will be in trouble once again. Time and position in history was on their side and Cook has done a good job as a corporate guy maximizing profits but he was lucky and the luck is running out. He is crooked and the crook is starting to get seen for what he is. Morality please Cook's business practices have shown me his morality, no thanks. I miss Steve Jobs he was purported to be a Tyrant who ceaselessly demanded perfection but he was also one of us part of the Spiritual community and he did care about what he put out. The only book ever downloaded on Steve Jobs iPad 2 was Autobiography of a Yogi (By Paramahansa Yogananda of the Kriya Yoga tradition) https://www.businessinsider.com/the-only-book-steve-jobs-downloaded-to-his-ipad-2011-10 According to Steve Jobs This was the most important book in his life. It shows Steve Jobs was all about integrity, innovation and design and would never ever have pulled the crap this Morally bankrupt Cook has and is doing nor try to shape public religion.
  9. Lord of Death

  10. You are very welcome. It will be very good for you to force yourself to get up and take walks. Why? Because you need to help facilitate the movement of cerebral spinal fluid. The feelings of pressure in the head are possibly due to CSF having minor circulation changes due to the energy rising and pooling in the crown, this can happen in other areas also for me it was almost the entire spine and crown and the migraines were debilitating. In Kriya Yoga we do a two practices that help with this the forward bows and Maya Mudra, had I been doing those practices I would have been fine. Walking will also help, sitting around or laying around is not going to make things better. So force yourself to take walks short at first then longer. Then come home and collapse if you have to, but get things circulating. Where the energy goes physiology follows. As you have already noted communicating here is helpful, as another said you are not alone and some of your excess is bleeding off those among us here who can, do feel it. You are okay right now and you are going to be okay. Follow your intuition you are already showing good judgement you can trust yourself. If you want to learn Kriya bows and Mahamudra I will send you instructions Oh and give your Mom a hug and tell her you love her. She is all the pure Yin you will ever need, from her your life in this world came.
  11. When I was 37 / 38 years old I decided that since I could not connect to a Kriya Yoga Lineage I trusted that it would be best to practice Za-Zen. I found a teacher and traveled every Sunday an hour each way to learn from him. In private I sat daily. Like yourself erections unwanted and unbelievably strong. They were so ridiculous I videoed myself sitting to see what was going on. I swear I looked like a corpse while this was happening. Energy ripping through my spine and my body. De- personalization with my life, lack of feeling for anything and anyone. Unlike you however my energetic event nearly left me crippled I had to walk with a cane and doctors forbid me from lifting anything over 15 lbs. MRI's showed advanced arthritis in each and every one of my facet joints ogf my spine. Even worse I had only been at my new job for a few months. I asked the doctors if electrocution would cause this and they agreed but it would take a very large exposure like being struck by lightening or an un-breakered DC energy system as AC electric does not damage people in this fashion and was asked if something like this had occurred. I replied no it had not but knew I had hurt myself. It took 4 years before I was pain free and today there is no evidence of the Swollen supposed Arthritic facet joints and I can most certainly carry hundreds of pounds without issues. I feel very sympathetic towards you. The energy as English lacks better words is not just energy it is emotion it is thought it is solidified things from many lives shaken loose. What you need to know is it will pass and everything is going to be ok. You are going to be ok. Develop a strong mental attitude that this is so because I have told you so as I like you have been in very bad places. If I can make it you can make it. Others have made it and you will also. You have encountered something that has always been part of you but you are not familiar with it and changes are hard. You will adapt. The way to adapt is to find a way to love where you find yourself in each moment. The past you is gone and it is ok. Once upon a time you were a lad a child now you are an adult where did the child go? The difference is that was gradual and this is abrupt. Do be loving to your Mother fake it if you have to at first and seek that spark of love for her that is really there it is just obscured right now. Right now things are just confusing. Your life is still present and you will pick it up and continue. This is a phase and it may last longer than you might want but you will outgrow it. After a four year period I was visited by Lahiri Mahasaya and returned to Kriya Yoga. That is a story for another time but all has been well since even thought the changes in my life have been stupendous in a very short period of time since then. The last 7 years have been something else and all for the better with some big stuff in between.
  12. Blocked channels. Something very similar happened to me over a decade ago now. Do this This is a great teacher and this technique should balance your 3 major channels and help. Best wishes. Eat heavier meals.
  13. Where do negative thoughts come from.

    This is a pretty good post. It also describes the process of Kriya Yoga very well. There is not one part of this post that is not Kriya Yoga so it has gotten my attention. One has to take it easy though as one can not know what is lurking in the subconscious. A good teacher is really needed but rarely found, so we do the best we can the same as eating a camel. One tiny bite at a time. What you described are very serious practices with very life altering effects, not for those who are comfortable with where they find themselves as it all will change and I do not just limit this to the internal life, when the internal life changes rest assured so will the external it is unavoidable.
  14. New Who?

    Is it my imagination or was this a very short season? I for one find her refreshing and have great hope for the seasons to come. Oh I think she is pretty decisive and sure of herself, when she remembers who she is and am willing to chalk it up to a plot device as we have had it revealed there are some pretty major things she does not recall as those aliens told her in an Episode. Sorry can't recall which one.
  15. simplify

    Omnamobagabatadevasudavaya
  16. simplify

    Wort! Wort! Wort!
  17. simplify

    Is That So?
  18. DESTINY?

    Ok try this on for size. The life you have is not yours. The mind you have is not yours or you. The body you have is not yours nor you. What you are and who you are is something quite different from all these things. You are like a rider in a bus or a train. There have been many and will be many riders in these so believed personal vehicles. All these things a person call I or Me are vehicles. The time you are aware of is a fabrication. Your past present and future all exist within a vast encapsulation called a lifetime. Within this individual encapsulation there are many variables and many boundaries. With each choice made a different set of variables both open and close and branch off in different directions. Destiney is variable within given parameters and hindsight is always 20 / 20. Try try and try again until you fail to succeed even after doing everything correctly and you will know that particular variable is closed for you. Make effort little or great and success comes, that variable is open to you. Live, Learn & Love I think these are 3 very important things.
  19. Interested in the abilites developed by certain Lineages

    Welcome, Many, many years ago I wondered about this as well. In the end I do not think it matters what you chooses as it all leads to the same destination. Many streams one ocean. There are levels and then there are levels. Some people learn to tap into energy for enhanced performance in athletics, Martial Arts etc... This is a reasonable thing and use eventually if taken far enough I imagine one becomes a Zen type person on their way to more and this is pretty good. Take well documented beings like Trailanga Swami for example. He could manifest in reality whatever he chose in real time, but according to him he was a channel for the divine and the will of the divine was his will as well no longer separable. So in my limited experience and observation it all leads to the same place. On the lower levels you have your own will and that will take you so far. Later you learn to get out of your own way and listen and become stillness and this is the beginning of flowing with the will of the divine or the big motion if you prefer. Here more things become possible yet still human will is present. Later one learns to listen and feel and accept and flow and go where pulled to recognize the stream the eddis and the current and to make effort when prompted and do it in such and thus a way and then later one comprehends why ti was just like that and often it is for the greater harmony of all involved within a given set of drama enacted out. Later much later I imagine one becomes like Trailanga. In his case he was okay either way alive and functioning with the people of those times or not it made little difference and the big motion of it all kept him in play for around 300 years incarnate that has been recorded. Even to this day his example is being presented. So take your pick whatever speaks to your spirit, your heart, whatever personally fulfills you follow that, do that but do not close yourself off to other possibilities with an attitude of I have found this, this is it!!! Good wishes with you journey. http://www.varanasi.org.in/tailang-swami https://www.ramdass.org/sri-trailanga-swami-the-walking-lord-shiva-of-varanasi/ https://www.deeptrancenow.com/exc_trailanga.htm
  20. DESTINY?

    Shhhhh... supposed to be a pm now everyone will play them
  21. The Spirit of the Dao Bums

    Hi Luke, just pull back take a break for a while. I found myself wasting too much time with the Trump junk so I said to myself enough and that’s all. It’s all fun until it isn’t then just take a break 😁