Memphis Kriya Yoga Center, TN, USA

18/04/2025

Another Great opportunity to get initiated for the Ancient , scientific teachings of Kriya Yoga !!

14/04/2025

Few glimpses of Memphis Kriya yoga centre TN initiation event!

06/04/2025

Kriya Yoga is an ancient method of living and meditation that cultivates body, mind, intellect and

10/03/2025

31/01/2025

13/01/2025

Live-Streamed Talks by Shri Guruji

26th International Intensive Kriya Yoga Seminar

Upcoming Talks by Shri Paramahamsa Prajnanananda

Dear Divine Ones,

This is an announcement that Shri Guruji Paramahamsa Prajnanananda will be giving daily talks at the 26th International Intensive Kriya Yoga Seminar at Hariharananda Gurukulam.
These talks will be one hour and live-streamed on our Kriya Yoga Masters Live YouTube Channel for all to see.
Shri Guruji will be speaking in English.

For those that wish to join via Zoom, that will also be possible.

The schedule for Shri Guruji's talks is as follows:

Wednesday, January 15
9:15 am IST (4:45 am CET, 3:45 am GMT, 10:45 pm EST*, 7:45 am PST*)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZTDZRpsvYY
4:30 pm IST (12:00 pm CET, 11:00 am GMT, 6:00 am EST, 3:00 am PST)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pk-rAWoyTA

Thursday, January 16
9:15 am IST (4:45 am CET, 3:45 am GMT, 10:45 pm EST*, 7:45 am PST*)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mK1A0YJ2j0

Friday, January 17
10:15 am IST (5:45 am CET, 4:45 am GMT, 11:45 pm EST*, 8:45 am PST*)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1GpOCCGmmY
4:30 pm IST (12:00 pm CET, 11:00 am GMT, 6:00 am EST, 3:00 am PST)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFhXfnB6USo

Saturday, January 18
4:30 pm IST (12:00 pm CET, 11:00 am GMT, 6:00 am EST, 3:00 am PST)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGqxdTyd9GA

Sunday, January 19
9:15 am IST (4:45 am CET, 3:45 am GMT, 10:45 pm EST*, 7:45 am PST*)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp5ICpXxKdQ

Monday, January 20
9:15 am IST (4:45 am CET, 3:45 am GMT, 10:45 pm EST*, 7:45 am PST*)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZXzAv8_TcU

* - talks in this time zone are one day earlier than in India.

Talks can also be found on Kriya Yoga Masters Live YouTube Channel

If you prefer, you can also join the Zoom Sessions to watch the live version of the talks.

This is the link for the Zoom sessions: Shri Guruji's Talks
Meeting ID: 885 1179 5201 Passcode: 101010

We hope you can join these sessions and take advantage of the wonderful opportunity to listen to Shri Guruji's teachings.

With Loving and humble regards

The Mother Center
Kriya Yoga Institute
24757 SW 167th Ave
Homestead, FL 33031
Tel: 305-247-1960

12/01/2025

Higher Kriya Retreat at the Mother Center
Thursday, March 20 to Sunday, March 23

We are happy to announce the 2025 - Higher Kriya Retreat at the Mother Center. It starts on Thursday, March 20, 2025 5:30 AM and ends on Sunday, March 23, 2025 1:00 PM. This retreat includes the following:

Initiation into 2nd Kriya Part 1 & 2, Part 3, and Part 4 for eligible kriyavans
Classes on these 2nd Kriya techniques
Guided meditation sessions
Spiritual discourses.
This program is open to kriyavans in the lineage of Paramahamsa Hariharananda and Paramahamsa Prajnanananda. Participants must be either already initiated into 2nd Kriya or getting initiated into 2nd Kriya.

For those seeking initiation into 2nd Kriya, please send your request, via email, to the Mother Center for approval prior to registration. Please note the following:

Those seeking initiation into 2nd Kriya Part 1 & 2 must have practiced First Kriya for at least three years.
Those seeking initiation into 2nd Kriya Part 3 must have practiced 2nd Kriya Part 1 & 2 for at least three years.
Similarly, those seeking initiation into 2nd Kriya Part 4 must have practiced 2nd Kriya Part 3 for at least three years.
For more details on the event and online registration, please click here.

Please enjoy this opportunity to visit Shri Gurudev's Home, deepen your sadhana, and enrich your spiritual understanding.

In Divine Service
Kriya Yoga Institute

Kriya Yoga Institute
24757 SW 167th Ave., Homestead, FL 33031

29/12/2024

MESSAGE FROM SHRI GURUJI ON THE OCCASION OF

Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025

Loving and divine souls,

Let the choicest blessings of God and the masters be upon all of you. I take this opportunity to pray for you, and I send my best wishes on the occasion of these holy days, wishing you all a divine Christmas and a spiritual New Year.

Christmas is to honor and invoke divinity within, and New Year is to welcome new life into us.

“New” is something happening for the first time. If we apply this meaning to the year 2025, it is arriving for the first time in our lives. New Year is not just a day; it is the entire year. Our celebration should be throughout the year.

“New” in Sanskrit is nava, which means “new,” “prayer,” “worship,” and “youthful.” We should be youthful in spirit in God consciousness. We should welcome the New Year and fill it with prayer and sincere worship. Let us love each other, and let our love gradually expand to the entire universe because God is Love, and Love is God.

This year Kumbha Mela (celebration of nectar) is in Prayagraj, India. Kumbha refers to a pitcher that symbolizes the body and mind. Let our minds and lives be filled with the nectar of love and devotion.

This year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Shri Gurudev’s coming to the Americas. He landed in South America and then went to North America. Let us celebrate this year with sincere spiritual discipline.

Every breath is new. Every moment is new. Let us make ourselves new and renewed by transforming our thoughts, words, and actions with pure love and devotion. Let us renew ourselves with prayer, meditation, and loving selfless service. Let us not waste our time and our minds. Time and minds are our treasure. Wasting time and our minds is wasting our lives, spoiling our onward journey.

On this special occasion I bow to God and Shri Gurudev in all of you. I am praying for all of you and the entire creation. I pray there is more strength in our lives to practice sadhana, to love, and to serve. I wish all of you peace, progress, and prosperity everywhere.

With love,

Prajnanananda

16/12/2024

Never forget you are a child of God. If at anytime, the cloud of ignorance covers you, then all miseries will try to torture you in many different ways. Be careful. You are a yogi. Consider everything as the play of the divine mother. Even your feeling of “I -ness” is also linked with the divine mother. Pray and meditate. Be careful in every moment and feel your peaceful divine nature.

~ Paramahamsa Prajnanananda

07/12/2024

Pratipaksh bhavna

When the mind is distracted by wayward or perverted thoughts and ideas, suitable counter measures should be adopted. This is described by the sage as pratipaksha bhavana. Pratipaksha bhavana means opposite contemplation. It is a method to reflect upon the opposite to help transform the mind. For example, when when there is a loss, think of people who have lost even more than you. This approach brings comfort and strength.
The "simple prayer" of Saint Francis is a good example of this method:

O Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me bring love;
Where there is resentment, let me bring forgiveness;
Where there is discord, let me bring unity;
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith;
Where there is error, let me bring truth;
Where there is despair, let me bring happiness;
Where there is sadne5, let me bring joy;
Where there is darkness, let me bring light.

Such counter thoughts and contemplation develop willpower and prevent the mind's agitation. When any negative thought or idea is trying to overpower one's mind, one should go somewhere else, go for a long and brisk walk, go swimming, or go seek good company.

An extract from 'The Yoga Sutra of Sage Patanjali '
By Shri Guruji Paramahamsa Prajnanananda ji Maharaj

05/12/2024

Shri Gurudev’s Mahasamadhi Day
Loving and divine souls,

Let the choicest blessings of God and the masters be upon all of you. I take this opportunity to pray for you, and I send my best wishes on the occasion of Shri Gurudev’s mahasamadhi day on 3 December. However, according to the Vedic tradition, it occurs on the new moon day of November–December (Margashirsha).

The mahasamadhi day is also called punyatithi (the auspicious day). The question might arise about why the day of final exit of a realized master is auspicious. Ordinarily we celebrate birthdays joyfully. But in the Vedic tradition for ordinary people birth days are only celebrated while living, while the day of departure (shraddhatithi) is celebrated every year afterward. However, the birth day (janmatithi) and the day of departure (punyatithi) are both celebrated every year for realized masters, the guru–preceptors.

It is said that when we are born, God dances. It means that when we come to the world we have a beautiful opportunity as human beings to be good children of God with effort and endeavor.

How should we celebrate the mahasamadhi day (punyatithi) of realized masters? It is said, punyatithi aradhana (with special worship). However, the true aradhana (worship) is following the ideals of the guru–preceptors and their teachings to become a worthy follower.

Shri Gurudev occasionally said, “O God, let us become formless beings one with all (sakala rūpe rūpa miśāye āpani nirākāra).” We all are the formless presence of the Divine. He also said, “Your breath is my presence.”

If we look at these two teachings, it is very clear to us that for our sadhana we must constantly live in the presence of God and the gurus, during every breath. We should also love all as the living presence of God and gurus.

Failure due to forgetfulness will happen over and over again. We must renew our effort the moment we are conscious. Life is an extreme opportunity. We should not misuse it.

On this special day I bow to you all as the living presence of God and Shri Gurudev. I pray they will bless all of us and the entire creation.

With love,

Prajnanananda

29/11/2024

*THANKS GIVING DAY*

Beloved and divine souls,

May the choicest blessings of God and the teachers be with you all. I take this opportunity to pray for you and send you my best wishes on the occasion of Thanksgiving, which will be celebrated on November 28 this year.
My first Thanksgiving was twenty eight years ago on November 27th in 1996. That year I came to America for the third time so that I could travel to the Kriya Yoga centers of America. My first program was in Cincinnati, and center leader Yogacharya Bhadrayu Baba was my host. He asked me if it seemed ok to me to go to dinner at a disciple's (longtime friend of hers), because it was Thanksgiving weekend. I was new to the states and the centers. So i accepted with a smile.
I was curious to know about this thanksgiving celebration. The event was completely new to me. It's a national celebration in the United States. Families and friends get together, pray and eat together. It's more of a social or family event than a religious or spiritual event. But its origin is very old." I found out with a little study. I understood that he was associated with the harvest, and gratitude was offered to God for what He provided.
What is thanksgiving? The dictionary says, "Thanksgiving is an expression of gratitude especially to God." Let's think deeply. The opportunity in human life is to live a life of gratitude and thanksgiving during every moment and with every breath. Thanksgiving is offered not only to God, but to each and every one in creation, because creation and the Creator are one. We must think about nature and all living beings, such as bees and butterflies, and even humans, and how they contribute to creation.
True thanksgiving is entirely a divine or spiritual practice.. It should not be followed once a year, but during every breath and every moment. An attitude of gratitude is truly a human and divine quality. We must learn to be grateful, to give thanks, and to develop the attitude that we should give more than we receive.
Are we Thankful ? Can we practice this daily? Can we, at the end of the day, do a little self-reflection and be grateful to those who have crossed our day with a smiling face, sweet words and caring hands? Can we be thankful to God for facing a difficult person or challenging situation with love and a smile?. Can we be thankful to God and teachers for all that we receive?
I humbly bow before you all and pray that you are humble and grateful in every breath and every moment. I pray that they are loving and caring.
I bow before God and the teachers to bless each of us and all of creation.

With love,

Prajñanananda

24/11/2024

The Union of Purusha and Prakriti, caused by ignorance, is the root of all misery and ultimate bo***ge. Freedom from ignorance is liberation. Misery, birth and death, problems associated with involvement, and false-inference for wrong understanding make for a vicious circle of bo***ge. Humanity, as a whole, is mired in this misery and fails to break free. A sincere seeker makes an earnest effort to rid himself of all these troubles by eliminating ignorance.
When ignorance is absent, there is no contact between Purusha and Prakriti out of a wrong understanding. Even if they are together, there is only prevalence of knowledge. That elimination of ignorance brings freedom to the observer. That is kaivalya or liberation.

- - - Paramahamsa Prajnananandaji Maharaj- - -