Art of Self Realization: Initiation

A new look at Yogananda's Kriya Initiation from 1930.This 1930 pamphlet is offered in the hope that many people will enjoy once again the insight provided in the Kriya instructions contained herein. In this pamphlet Yogananda gives the Kriya technique, describing the path of the kriya breath as elliptical. However there is no teaching of kechari technique in this 1930 brochure, contrary to what is said in a description of an unOCR'd book of the same name. Interestingly there were changes in this presentation of Kriya which were authorized by Yogananda after he published it. In the 1954 Convocation SRF President James J. Lynn announced that Yogananda had received permission shortly before his Mahasamadhi to change the kriya path from going up inside the spinal column and going down outside the spinal column, to the breath being kept inside the spinal column on the down breath.