Kriya Yoga Meditation Series: May 3, 2026

Sunday, May 3, 2026
Kriya Yoga Meditation Series
11:00 a.m.
Conducted by Srimati Karuna

“Freedom from Sensory impressions - Samskaras”
Kriya Brochure

As the mind is directed subjectively, it comes in contact with finite concepts and thoughts acquired from our sense-identified existence. These finite concepts and thoughts are called “samskaras,” or sense impressions. The word samskaras literally means thought forms of the phenomenal world, the world of duality. These thought forms create veils, so to speak, within us which hide the vision of the Self. The purpose of meditation is to remove these veils so that we may gain direct knowledge of the true and perfect Self.

“There are two ways of life; one is the path of the senses, and the other is the path of the Self, mystically called the southern passage and the northern passage, respectively. Those who follow the path of the senses, after their departure from this plane of consciousness, enter into another plane of relative existence. But they inevitably return to the sensory world. This is the law of the path of the senses. Those who follow the path of the Self, aspiring to realize the Self by purity, faith and self-enlightenment, attain to the state of supreme illumination in self-effulgent, absolute pure-consciousness. Absolute pure-consciousness is the state of highest perfection.

Those of sensory consciousness think that the self, the soul, is identified with the body, which is sustained by five currents of energy, and which functions with the aid of twelve faculties consisting of five perceptive and five cognitive powers, mind and ego. They live in the enjoyment of the senses which is merely the reflection of the bliss of the self. But those who have realized the self know that the sea is fully revealed at the highest center, the Sahasraram, though it transmits its life-force through the six centers of energy into the entire body system.”

Prashna Upanishad
Translated by Swami Premananda
Eight Upanishads