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Baba Hariharananda New York City USA
In the late 1990's two sanyasi's came to Homestead, Florida, USA ashram to visit Baba Hariharananda.
Baba told them, when they arrived in Homestead to see him:
"If you don't go to New York City, your trip to USA is...
Baba Hariharananda was a scientist.
"Kriya Yoga technique is the scientific and mathematical way of changing the material body consciousness into Cosmic Consciousness"
He never stopped his inner exploration of Self-realization thru the practice of Kriya...
My favorite photo of Baba Hariharananda taken by don baba
One day in New York City, a few years after I became a Kriyaban, Baba Hariharananda asked me to find a pen for him.
This pen was a unique pen, as it had four different colored inks and it would let you choose one...
Nirvikalpa Samadhi Master Swami Hariharananda Giri
"Talk about Nirvikalpa Samadhi Baba"
One of the most powerful moments I experienced being in the presence of Baba Hariharananda was during his 95th birthday celebration at his ashram in Homestead, Florida.
It was his...
Calmly search God in the fontanel, practice kriya well.
Kriya Yoga is a science of correct breath. By proper inhalation, when calmness descends, the devotee is in complete bliss and perceives three divine qualities: divine sound, divine light, and divine vibration.
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Baba Hariharananda with folded hands
"We are born for "Self-realization - the God-consciousness in us.
Think of Him constantly, no matter what you are doing.
Practice makes man perfect.
An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theories.
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Kriya yoga is a scientific technique. the practice of this yoga annihilates all the unusual and unreasonable elemental propensities ever-present in the spiritual centers of the human body. It awakens the kundalini, or Serpent Power, and restores the...
Swami Hariharananda and Don early 1980's at Chuck's Gallery NYC
God means different things to different people.
Baba Hariharananda would often say:
"Watch the 'Marvelous Power of God', which is formless, breathing and performing action."
Raghabanandaji...
Master of Shambhavi Mudra Swami SriYukteswar Giri
Just before leaving the condo to catch the Amtrak train from Washington, DC to return to New York City, Baba Hariharananda paused in front of a photo of Swami SriYukteswar and said to me:
“Look at my...
Swami Hariharananda Giri with Yogacharya Sri Sri Bhupendranath Sanyal Mahasay
"Swami Hariharananda Giri of Karar Ashram, Puri, got 5th and 6th kriyas from Sri Sanyal Mahasay and also his permission for giving diksha" (kriya initiation)...A Life Divine - A Short Life-Sketch, Divine...
Swami Hariharananda Giri with Swami Satyananda and Swami Narayan Giri
For Karar Ashram executed by Swami Satyananda Giri - English Translation and Original Text.
Name and address of the executant - Swami Satyananda Giri, aged 76 years, Akashapanthi monk, disciple of Sri...
Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri and Paramhansa Yogananda
In 1932, I came into contact with Sri Yukteswarji for the first time and initiated into "Kriya Yoga" through him.
He read something from the lines on my palm, and as it happened, my appearance as a young brahmana...
Baba's message and example was that it is possible in this very birth to be "Self-Realized".
It was why we are born, he would often teach.
A few years after I had received Kriya Yoga initiation and started practicing the Kriya Yoga techniques, I started to have doubts...
Baba Hariharananda and Don Baba JFK Airport 1
One night after meditation class in Virginia's apartment basement in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, Baba said to me privately:
"How did Hariharananda become Hariharananda?"
"I went inside, meditated very deeply and got that experience...
One of the greatest lessons I experienced from following Paramahamsa "Baba" Hariharananda and practicing Kriya Yoga, is that I am a part of something so marvelous and infinite, that it transcends my limited "New Yorker and "ethno-centric" self identity.
Baba was...
Kriya Yoga Master Swami Hariharananda Giri
For twenty years I heard Baba say: "Nirvakalpa Samadhi " is the certificate one must have, to say they are a "Master of Kriya Yoga". The ability to enter and exit the "pulselessness - breathlessness" state of "Nirvakalpa Samadhi" at will,...
One of the greatest Kriya Yoga masters of modern times.
- Samadhi master who mastered the Kriya Yoga techniques and could enter in and out of the state of "Nirvikalpa Samadhi" at will.
- Demonstrated the "pulselessness - breathlessness" state of Nirvikalpa Samadhi in public and private.
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