Kriya Yoga: Yoga of action.
Action is part and parcel of this creation. There is activity in everything atom, sun, moon, stars. Nothing is stable. There is absolutely no silence at all.
In every activity there is silence too. How do you see it? It needs sharpness of awareness. Keen-ness.
Kriya Yoga has 3 parts:
Tapas - endurance, acceptance, willingly do something that is not easy. Focus is on physical body. If you had a choice you won't do it. This is tapa. Without grumbling willing accepting something that'd you rather not. Because you know the result of this action is v good.
Svadhyaya - self study, or study of mind
Ishvara pranidhana - devotion to the lord or the self
They all reduce the suffering, misery in life. And give rise to samadhi.
https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/intro-yoga-philosophy-tap-heat/
Fire sustains life. 5 types of fires
Bhutagni: Physical fire. With which you heat your home and keep yourself warm. This sustains life.
Kamagni: Fire of desire or lust or passion. It is because of this that life continues on this planet. This has potential to make you alert if this is kindled properly.
Jatragni: Fire of hunger and digestion. It affects your balance, health. When you fast, every cell of your body becomes alive. It's a very good therapy. Allow this fire to come up in you. It can purify you, remove the toxins from your body. It can make your feelings better. All religions of the world prescribe fasting and prayer. Fasting touches the deepest sanskara in you from ages. However it should be done with an understanding. Extreme fasting is not good either.
Badabagni: Fire of social criticism. When people criticize, it wakes you up. As a social animal man must abide by code of conduct. It generates fear of getting punished, and keeps up the morals in you. If you are concerned too much what people will say, it may limit your freedom and you are missing the point.
Premagni: Fire of knowledge or love. It takes you totally. It can lift you up from fire of criticism. You do not mind what people say. Fire of love begins with intense longing. Only in human birth can this fire be experienced. It moves onto the full blossoming.
Sattvic tapas is of 3 kinds:
1. Physical Tapas: Having a say over senses, and the body. Remaining in self.
2. Vangmay: Tapas of speech: Speaking such words that do not excite people in wrong sense. Speaking truth, with pleasant expression of truth.
3. Manomay: Tapas of mind: Maintaining pleasantness in mind is big tapas. You feel pleasant and very soon you can drop it if not maintained. Calm and composed, sensitive to your surroundings. Silent mind. Remaining in the self.
On path of yoga your words become powerful. If you call someone fool, they may become fool. Your words have power to bless and curse.
Ten times bigger than your physical body is your body of prana or the energy body.
Ten times bigger than your pranic body is your mind body, your thought body.
Ten times bigger than that is your intuitive body.
Ten times bigger than that is your bliss body. Ten times means infinite times bigger is our blissful body. Boundless is our bliss. Blissful body.
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