This way, this is what Lahiri Mahasaya and Swami Pranabananda Giri instructed If your breath is shorter, accept this situation without trying, with uneasiness, to lengthen your breath. A longer breath will appear spontaneously in time. What matters is to stay focused at Kutastha with the mental chant of Om.
Kriyayoga – the primordial and immortal science of true dharma as revived by Bhagavan Sri Shamachurn Lahiree Mahasaya. Yogiraj Lahiree Mahasaya even wrote 26 most confidential personal diaries on His most exalted Yogabastha. These are treasures for the entire world. The science of true Dharma. Dharma that resides within everyone of us – which one needs to realize through Yogasadhana.
Satya Charan, knowing his son who was much taken with Krishana Murti and Osho Rajneesh, had fears that the precious teachings of Yogiraj Lahiri Mahasaya would disappear and so asked his best pupil Ashok kr. Kia niro gas mileage. Chatterjee to write from the diary of Lahiri Mahasay a biography of this Being. Lahiri Mahasaya prophesied that the infant Yogananda would become a yogi, and that 'as a spiritual engine, he will carry many souls to God's kingdom.' 2 Trailanga Swami, the famous saint of India, had praised Lahiri Mahasaya in the following words, 'Lahiri Mahasaya is like a divine kitten, remaining wherever the Cosmic Mother has placed him. Lahiri Mahasaya: Shyama Charan Lahiri. World Heritage Encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most.
Purana Purusha by Yogacharya Dr. Ashoke Kumar Chatterjee
‘Purana Purusha‘, authored by Yogacharya Dr. Ashoke Kumar Chatterjee is a rare book. Yogivar Sri Satyacharan Lahiri Mahasaya, grandson of Yogiraj ShamaChurn Lahiree Mahasaya asked his disciple Dr. Chatterjee to write a spiritual biography of Yogiraj. It is directly based on the 26 personal diaries written by Yogiraj Lahiree Mahasaya Himself. A must read for everyone initiated into Kriyayoga.
Citrix receiver mac 10.15. Yogacharya Dr. Ashoke Kumar Chatterjee, World Kriyayoga Master
The book,along with several other topics, describes about the most supreme spiritual entity of India – Mahavatar Babaji.
To familiarize the readers about his Guru Babaji ,Yogiraj, in his personal diary, has delineated a human face and thus recounted beside it –
Ehi Babajike rupa, ehi yama, ehi dharma
In accordance with His statement – This is the Form of Babaji, this only is both Yama or the Destroyer and dharma or Preserver but he is not the Creator. Then Who is the Creator? Dynamism evolves from Brahma Statice thus everything is created, the origin of all creation is Static Brahma.
Again in another instance He has expatiated
'This Atmasurya is Mahapurusha Brahma, He only is the Container of the universe; everything evolves from here and ultimately everything merges here.' The first manifested dot from Brahma Statice is Atmasurya. This Atmasurya is Infinite and Ubiquitous. In actuality augmentation of dynamism from that Atmasurya only has caused the creation of this macrocosm, still the place of origin of Atmasurya is Static Brahma. Hence Brahma only is the place of origin for everything. If there is creation destruction is inevitable. For this reason Babaji is the Destroyer. Again since Atmasurya is the Protector for everything, Babaji is dharma hence Protector. Babaji himself being Atmasurya in the end everything merges in Him. Because of this He is the Destroyer. Again He only is dharma, because the different entities prevalent in creation all have separate essences or dharmas, this essence or dharma evolves from Atmasurya. For instance the first dot or Atmasurya is manifested from Static Brahma, again the endless space or inseparable motion which is manifested from this dot or else the dynamic void is also invested with attributes. This attribute only is dharma; because this attribute only maintains the totality. But Brahma is devoid of attributes. Although this sky or the vast expanse or space is immanent it is not beyond attributes. On the other hand the word ‘dharma' connotes One by Whom everything is borne. When everything is borne by Atmasurya, when Babaji himself is Atmasurya then he is dharma. If we say dharma exists and its contrary does not exist, it is not correct. Acknowledging one facet will automatically lead to acknowledgment of the other; for this reason if the intrinsic essence (dharma) is present then non-intrinsic essence (adharma) is also present, but is absent from Brahma. Thus Yama (Destroyer) and dharma are both dual entities, not non-dual. For this reason since the place of merging for the total creation is Atmasurya, that Atmasurya is Yama and since He is the Controller of all attributes, He is dharma. Because of this Babaji is both yama and dharma.
Sambhavami Yuge Yuge - advent of God at different Yugas
Yogiraj has further elucidated in this regard –
Khod Babaji kaldand liye upar surya candramake bhitar dekhlai diya
In other words visualisation of Babaji alongwith the staff of death was caused to occur above or else I envisioned his presence within the vast expression of million sun and million moonlike Kutastha. In actuality the entities of Guru and disciple are dual. Barring this duality sadhana cannot be imparted or received. But everything is one at the root, then solely it is Brahma, nothing else but Brahma. Therefore in accordance with the fundamental or root essence Babaji and Shama Chum are one and the same, but for Jiva-Shama Chum to obtain sadhana, imperatively there has to be two, so the same entity disintegrating into two separate entities imparted sadhana to Himself and reverted to His Own Self. One has to have a SadGuru to get initiated. Sri Krishna found his Guru in Muni Sandeepan. They are nothing but another form of Brahma. Mahavatar Babaji was such for Lahiree Mahashaya. He was another spiritual form of Yogiraj himself – Brahma Shyamacharan. This is quite evident from the personal diaries written by Lahiree Mahashaya himself –
Jab pran vayu sir ke upar chadha tab babaji se mila, jab babaji se mila tab kya nahi kar sakta hai…
Jo kisun so badua baba
And again –
jo kabira surya ka rup so hi abinashi brahma so hi hum
That He only is the Origin and Ubiquitous, to shower enlightenment about this all-pervasiveness Shama Chum has explained –
Hum hi asmanka suryarupa – Hum choday dusra koi koi nahi
Yogiraj Lahiree Mahasaya again expounded :
‘The dazzling sun of the sky, whose brilliance has made this macrocosm radiant, that sun's form, fire, resplendence, heat are all Me. When there is nothing barring Me in this universe then alongwith the sun of the sky I only prevail amidst the total creation. Without My Immanence the resplendent sun of the sky will be absent, thus I have created and am maintaining the totality. In this manner all the forms noticeable in this world are My Form only, My manifestations only. Therefore I only am the Master of creation, preservation and mergence taken together.‘
hamare hi rup se saba jagah – hum chhodaaye koi nahi
Thus Krishna Babaji and Jiva Shama Chum Both are manifestations of Brahma Shama Chum.
Bhupendra Nath Sanyal, a great householder disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya
Paramahansa Yogananda: 'Sri Bhupendra Nath Sanyal, an eminent disciple of the great guru, stated that, as a youth in 1892, unable to go to Banaras, he prayed to the master for spiritual instruction. Lahiri Mahasaya appeared before Bhupendra in a dream and gave him diksha (initiation). Later the boy went to Banaras and asked the guru for diksha. ‘I have already initiated you, in a dream,' Lahiri Mahasaya replied.' Autobiography of a Yogi
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Two Visits With Sri Sanyal, Disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya, May 25th [1959]
We call on Sri Bhupendra Nath Sanyal Mahasaya, whose ashram is a short distance from the Gowardhan Math of the Jagadguru's. Sri Sanyal is in his middle eighties. But what sparkling eyes he has, and what a gentle mien! One of the main reasons for our return to Puri was to meet this renowned disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya; for he was away when we made our first visit to Puri.
Mataji [Daya Mata] has written in her diary about our two visits Sanyal Mahasaya, and I will use her notes here:
'We enter a large, bare room, and seat ourselves in front of a small colorful rug. Within a few moments we hear a movement on the stairway and soon a man of slight form walks in. Seating himself on the rug, he looks curiously at each of us as we are introduced and pronam to him. … He is very reticent to talk about himself and when questions are put to him we see that he turns the conversation to Lahiri Mahasaya. His eyes light up with love as he reminisces about those glorious days at feet of his guru; a pleasant gentle laugh bursts forth at times. His eyes remain aloof and one feels in his presence a deep serenity and peace. ….
Sri Sanyal: I had it in mind at the age of 14 to study the Vedas. I had never thought of going for instruction to Lahiri Mahasaya; but when I found him, he asked me to study the Vedas with him.
On the first visit I had no idea of initiation but only an ordinary visit; but when I saw him, he began to smile for no reason at all, and kept smiling and smiling. And intuition came to me that his smile meant that he was my guru and that I would have to come to him for initiation. I was initiated by him at the age of 15; and when I was 16 he asked me to give kriya yoga initiation to seekers. I have now given initiation to about 5000 persons.
Lahiri Mahasaya Diaries
When I was 15 or 16 I had malaria. My eldest sister wrote to Lahiri Mahasaya in Benares asking if I would be cured. He replied that there was no danger, that I would not die young, for I had much work ahead of me. He wrote this message in his own hand.
After Death Lahiri Mahasaya Appeared in the Flesh
When I was 19, Lahiri Mahasaya died. For a time I was inconsolable. I slept but seldom and I wept all the time. One night I was weeping and fell asleep while doing so. Suddenly I woke up to find Lahiri Mahasaya in front of me, looking just as he had done while he was in the flesh. He asked, 'Why are you weeping? You live not only in this world; you are also with me.' Lahiri Mahasaya smiled and added, 'Why have you imagined I was not here? I am always with you. I am here now with you. You need not be afraid.' I touched his body and he then disappeared. This miracle happened in Deoghar.
A similar incident took place in Santiniketan when I was there as a superintendent. I was very ill and given up for lost. One night when I was sleeping, Lahiri Mahasaya appeared in a dream and asked me what was the matter. I said, 'Now that I'm going to die, I regret that I have not been able to do more in this life.' Lahiri Mahasaya touched me and said, 'You're not going to die. You have something more to achieve in this life.' The doctors who were treating me were greatly surprised to see me better the next morning and talking with the people around me.
'Dayamata says, ‘We learned this from our Guru—that you can judge a disciple by his feeling toward his own Guru. To see your love and devotion for Lahiri Mahasaya is deeply touching to our hearts.'
Sanyal Mahsaya replies, ‘My Guru is my father, my God. I like to see him as my God. Never have I met another so great as he. Meeting him once one could never forget him.'
Dayamata asks Sanya Mahasaya whether Lahiri Mahasaya manifested more of bhakti or of jnana. The saint replies, he was all-sided. He was the most loving person I have ever met, yet he expressed himself in terms of sublimest wisdom.' ….
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Lahiri Mahasaya's Prediction about Spread of Kriya Yoga
Sambhavami Yuge Yuge - advent of God at different Yugas
Yogiraj has further elucidated in this regard –
Khod Babaji kaldand liye upar surya candramake bhitar dekhlai diya
In other words visualisation of Babaji alongwith the staff of death was caused to occur above or else I envisioned his presence within the vast expression of million sun and million moonlike Kutastha. In actuality the entities of Guru and disciple are dual. Barring this duality sadhana cannot be imparted or received. But everything is one at the root, then solely it is Brahma, nothing else but Brahma. Therefore in accordance with the fundamental or root essence Babaji and Shama Chum are one and the same, but for Jiva-Shama Chum to obtain sadhana, imperatively there has to be two, so the same entity disintegrating into two separate entities imparted sadhana to Himself and reverted to His Own Self. One has to have a SadGuru to get initiated. Sri Krishna found his Guru in Muni Sandeepan. They are nothing but another form of Brahma. Mahavatar Babaji was such for Lahiree Mahashaya. He was another spiritual form of Yogiraj himself – Brahma Shyamacharan. This is quite evident from the personal diaries written by Lahiree Mahashaya himself –
Jab pran vayu sir ke upar chadha tab babaji se mila, jab babaji se mila tab kya nahi kar sakta hai…
Jo kisun so badua baba
And again –
jo kabira surya ka rup so hi abinashi brahma so hi hum
That He only is the Origin and Ubiquitous, to shower enlightenment about this all-pervasiveness Shama Chum has explained –
Hum hi asmanka suryarupa – Hum choday dusra koi koi nahi
Yogiraj Lahiree Mahasaya again expounded :
‘The dazzling sun of the sky, whose brilliance has made this macrocosm radiant, that sun's form, fire, resplendence, heat are all Me. When there is nothing barring Me in this universe then alongwith the sun of the sky I only prevail amidst the total creation. Without My Immanence the resplendent sun of the sky will be absent, thus I have created and am maintaining the totality. In this manner all the forms noticeable in this world are My Form only, My manifestations only. Therefore I only am the Master of creation, preservation and mergence taken together.‘
hamare hi rup se saba jagah – hum chhodaaye koi nahi
Thus Krishna Babaji and Jiva Shama Chum Both are manifestations of Brahma Shama Chum.
Bhupendra Nath Sanyal, a great householder disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya
Paramahansa Yogananda: 'Sri Bhupendra Nath Sanyal, an eminent disciple of the great guru, stated that, as a youth in 1892, unable to go to Banaras, he prayed to the master for spiritual instruction. Lahiri Mahasaya appeared before Bhupendra in a dream and gave him diksha (initiation). Later the boy went to Banaras and asked the guru for diksha. ‘I have already initiated you, in a dream,' Lahiri Mahasaya replied.' Autobiography of a Yogi
~~*~~
Two Visits With Sri Sanyal, Disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya, May 25th [1959]
We call on Sri Bhupendra Nath Sanyal Mahasaya, whose ashram is a short distance from the Gowardhan Math of the Jagadguru's. Sri Sanyal is in his middle eighties. But what sparkling eyes he has, and what a gentle mien! One of the main reasons for our return to Puri was to meet this renowned disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya; for he was away when we made our first visit to Puri.
Mataji [Daya Mata] has written in her diary about our two visits Sanyal Mahasaya, and I will use her notes here:
'We enter a large, bare room, and seat ourselves in front of a small colorful rug. Within a few moments we hear a movement on the stairway and soon a man of slight form walks in. Seating himself on the rug, he looks curiously at each of us as we are introduced and pronam to him. … He is very reticent to talk about himself and when questions are put to him we see that he turns the conversation to Lahiri Mahasaya. His eyes light up with love as he reminisces about those glorious days at feet of his guru; a pleasant gentle laugh bursts forth at times. His eyes remain aloof and one feels in his presence a deep serenity and peace. ….
Sri Sanyal: I had it in mind at the age of 14 to study the Vedas. I had never thought of going for instruction to Lahiri Mahasaya; but when I found him, he asked me to study the Vedas with him.
On the first visit I had no idea of initiation but only an ordinary visit; but when I saw him, he began to smile for no reason at all, and kept smiling and smiling. And intuition came to me that his smile meant that he was my guru and that I would have to come to him for initiation. I was initiated by him at the age of 15; and when I was 16 he asked me to give kriya yoga initiation to seekers. I have now given initiation to about 5000 persons.
Lahiri Mahasaya Diaries
When I was 15 or 16 I had malaria. My eldest sister wrote to Lahiri Mahasaya in Benares asking if I would be cured. He replied that there was no danger, that I would not die young, for I had much work ahead of me. He wrote this message in his own hand.
After Death Lahiri Mahasaya Appeared in the Flesh
When I was 19, Lahiri Mahasaya died. For a time I was inconsolable. I slept but seldom and I wept all the time. One night I was weeping and fell asleep while doing so. Suddenly I woke up to find Lahiri Mahasaya in front of me, looking just as he had done while he was in the flesh. He asked, 'Why are you weeping? You live not only in this world; you are also with me.' Lahiri Mahasaya smiled and added, 'Why have you imagined I was not here? I am always with you. I am here now with you. You need not be afraid.' I touched his body and he then disappeared. This miracle happened in Deoghar.
A similar incident took place in Santiniketan when I was there as a superintendent. I was very ill and given up for lost. One night when I was sleeping, Lahiri Mahasaya appeared in a dream and asked me what was the matter. I said, 'Now that I'm going to die, I regret that I have not been able to do more in this life.' Lahiri Mahasaya touched me and said, 'You're not going to die. You have something more to achieve in this life.' The doctors who were treating me were greatly surprised to see me better the next morning and talking with the people around me.
'Dayamata says, ‘We learned this from our Guru—that you can judge a disciple by his feeling toward his own Guru. To see your love and devotion for Lahiri Mahasaya is deeply touching to our hearts.'
Sanyal Mahsaya replies, ‘My Guru is my father, my God. I like to see him as my God. Never have I met another so great as he. Meeting him once one could never forget him.'
Dayamata asks Sanya Mahasaya whether Lahiri Mahasaya manifested more of bhakti or of jnana. The saint replies, he was all-sided. He was the most loving person I have ever met, yet he expressed himself in terms of sublimest wisdom.' ….
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Lahiri Mahasaya's Prediction about Spread of Kriya Yoga
On this occasion Sanyal Mahasaya expresses delight on hearing of the vast extent of the SRF work in the West. He tells us, 'Lahiri Mahasaya said that Kriya Yoga would spread throughout the world.' ….
While we are seated at his feet, Mataji takes motion pictures and still photos. Bidding him good-bye, we go over to the Mandir of Lahiri Mahasaya to meditate for a short time before a marble murti (figure) of our Paramaguru. As we turn to leave the ashram grounds, we see that Sanyal Mahasaya has seated himself on the upper balcony, waiting for us. He says in English, 'I am really very happy to meet you all. I hope you come again, as often as you can.'
We assure him we will do so. What peace one feels in the presence of great souls whose minds have pierced the veil of maya!
After visiting the Guru Mandir of Lahiri Mahasaya for the last time, we turn again to see the gentle countenance of Sanyal Mahasaya looking down at us from the upper balcony with so much love and peace flowing from his eyes. We pronam to him and walk on through the gates of the ashram and down the road toward Yogoda Ashram. Now and then we look back toward Sri Sanyal, waving our scarves in farewell, while this gentle soul responds with a wave of his hand.
Lahiri Mahasaya Diary
Here in Sanyal Mahasaya we have seen the perfect attitude of a disciple toward his guru. For him the guru is everything; he himself is nothing. For him, the guru is the shining Light, he is but the bulb reflecting that light. For him, the guru is all wisdom; he is merely the conveyor of that wisdom, merely the spokesman for his guru. For him the guru is Love and Bliss Divine—his eyes reflect that divinity that is his guru. His interest is not in extolling himself, the disciple, but rather in turning the spotlight of his love, understanding, and wisdom upon the inspiration of his life, that all may behold only the guru, not the disciple. How admirable are such devotees!
from Daya Mataji's Travel Diary [excerpts, see more below]
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