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LIVING KRIYA YOGA

The Path of Self- and  

God-Realization for Seekers Today

 

Kriya Yoga practice removes all obstacles  

to Self- and God-realization. 

                                                 —Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra 2.2

When Paramahansa Yogananda

 came to America in 

1920 with the blessings of his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar, 

his mission was to bring the universally applicable and 

practical teachings of Kriya Yoga to spiritual seekers in the 

West. Steeped in ancient, time-tested Vedic wisdom and his 

own spiritual realization, Paramahansaji lit the soul fires of 

seekers everywhere he went with a message of truth—One 

Reality expresses as all that is and it is the certain destiny 

of every person to realize it. God is the life of every person. 

When that is known, the self-conscious sense of isolation 

falls away and one can live in harmony with the highest wisdom. True freedom 

ensues and a life of unconditional joy becomes possible. Liberation from the illusion 

of being separate from the Source and from one another is the foundation for global 

peace as well as individual happiness.
Roy Eugene Davis, as a young man from the Midwest, met Paramahansa Yogananda 

in 1949. He was accepted for discipleship, trained by him, and later ordained by 

Paramahansaji to represent this tradition of Kriya Yoga. Mr. Davis has taught this 

practical, direct way to God-realization throughout the world for over fifty years. He 

trained and ordained Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian, the spiritual director of CSE.
Kriya Yoga is an intentional, universal approach to Self-realization and spiritual 

enlightenment—complete awakening to full knowledge of the Infinite. It is an inte-

grated spiritual path that brings together the most effective elements of all systems 

of yoga. Emphasis in this tradition is placed on healthy, purposeful, conscious living 

and superconscious meditation practice. Kriya Yoga practice facilitates the direct 

experience of our essential nature. This is accomplished when all obstacles are 

removed and the practitioner’s awareness is restored to wholeness. The goal of Kriya 

Yoga is to realize the truth of our essential nature as spiritual beings and to live in 

harmony with that truth. 
The essential practices of Kriya Yoga are superconscious meditation; insightful 

study of scripture and of the nature of reality; self-discipline for conscious living; 

and surrender of the illusional sense of being separate from the Source of Life. The 

divine nature of every person is honored. The purpose of spiritual practice is simply 

to remove any obstacle that obscures the expression and the full realization of that 

innate divinity. As all souls are inherently divine, everyone naturally yearns to 

awaken to his or her innate potential and to live a fully conscious, joyful life. Kriya 

Yoga provides the way.