Overview for The Science of Self-Realization: A Guide to Spiritual Practice in the Kriya Yoga Tradition
The first chapter provides a detailed explanation of superconscious states and the various ways by which they may be realized. Kriya yoga lifestyle regimens and meditation practices are explained in the second chapters. In the third chapters, exceptional powers of perception and extraordinary abilities that one can use to nurture spiritual growth are described. The means by which soul capacities are actualized and indications of stages of spiritual awakening are presented in the fourth chapter. Kriya Yoga1. "To do." To perform an action. 2. Intensive spiritual practice that results in uniting (yoga) attention and awareness with supreme Consciousness. 3. Self-discipline, study and analysis of higher realities, and surrender of the illusional sense of self that allows one's true nature and the reality of God to be realized (experienced and known). Science The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of natural phenomena and higher realities. Self-realization Conscious experience with knowledge of one's true essence of being. Sutras Concise "threads" of concepts and teachings of a theme to be contemplated until their meanings are intellectually comprehended and intuitively discerned.
Roy Eugene Davis (Author)
Roy Eugene Davis (born 1931 in Leavittsburg, Ohio) is an American Kriya Yoga teacher. Davis was ordained by his guru in 1951 and was appointed as the minister of the Phoenix, Arizona, Self-Realization Fellowship Center in March 1952, shortly after Yogananda's passing. In late 1953, aware of a need to learn to live effectively in the secular world, he withdrew from the organization--but not from his relationship with the Kriya yoga tradition. After 2 years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps at Fort Riley, Kansas, he began his mission as an independent teacher, traveling throughout America to lecture and present classes in dozens of cities. In 1964, he lectured to large audiences in 8 cities in Japan under the auspices of the Seicho-No-Ie movement founded there by Dr. Masaharu Taniguchi. Another lecture tour was sponsored in Japan Seicho-No-Ie in 1978 and a few years later in Brazil. Some of his books are published in nine languages, with more than 40 different editions in print in the U.S. and several countries. He is also the publisher of Truth Journal magazine and writes monthly lessons for CSA members around the world. Davis moved to Lake-Mont, in Northeast Georgia, in 1972 to establish The Center for Spiritual Awareness as a permanent base for his ministry. The first name of this organization had been "Christian Spiritual Alliance".
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