Sunday, May 11, 2025
Kriya Yoga Meditation Series
11:00 a.m.
Conducted by Srimati Karuna
”Power of Prana”
Sunday Bulletin
The cosmic prana is the infinite manifesting power of the universe. This life energy is Self-revealing in human consciousness as the ultimate source of all existence.
Live in the awareness of its sustaining power. It vitalizes the body, purifies the mind and liberates the soul. It unites us with the cosmic consciousness.
“The Lord of creation thought of objective self-manifestation, and he willed to manifest. At once came into being the duality of life and consciousness. And he further projected his thought, ‘To evolve the perfection of my self-manifestation, manifold objects and beings will come into existence from the union of these two.’ Consciousness is the light of illumination. Life is enlightened by consciousness. The relationship between consciousness and life is comparable to that of the sun and the moon. All that exists, either as a form or in the formless state, is essentially life-substance. Among these, obviously, all living beings are life-substance.”
Prashna Upanishad
Translation by Swami Premananda
Eight Upanishads
“The universe of cosmic energy, or prana, exists in two tendencies: one is unmanifest, the other manifest. The unmanifest exists as the vast potential of formless being out of which the universe arises. It is self-absorbed—that is, with the power to be, but without change. The second tendency of prana is dynamic and creative: that which manifests and which we see as matter, as living organisms, and all that we behold with our minds. Astronomers bring us to the threshold of pure Yoga philosophy with their assertion that we see only ten percent of our universe. The ninety percent that is imperceptible to our senses exists as potential to be penetrated by our minds. We must bring that light of consciousness within our minds to a similar state of vibration of cosmic light to be aware of the rest of the vast, yet unseen, universe.
“Prana is the divine link between the so-called spirit life and so-called body of man. This prana is carried and organized through the intricate centers of consciousness within the body and perceived in the brain in ways that control the physical body and the mind. But something more: This prana, as it is brought through the mind in the brain, determines the quality of our consciousness. When the universal or divine consciousness is manifested or perceived at each center within our spine the result is a particular awareness, an awareness of life around us, an awareness of others.”
Swami Kamalananda
The Breath of God and Pranayam