Kriya Yoga vs Tantric Practices - Yogi Explains

Ashokji taught me one simple principle who's action over time creates an entirely different experience for the Kriya Yogi.
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[@duanef2634]

There once was a master that would throw small rocks at his students, a devoted student kept the rock and took it home, washed it off (cleaned it) and found it was pure gold. The master is life, the rock is our trials, the gold is yourself.

[@pram204]

Thanks for explaining the importance of chanting OM in each chakra. I loved the part where Bliss is so overwhelming that we can’t work 🙏🙏🙏. The inability to manage “sensual acceleration” leads to a lot of trouble in spiritual life of a Yogi. Thanks for discussing that candidly. Your videos are a blessing for many of us. Eye opener. God Bless You. 🙏🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! I'm so glad to hear that! 🙏✨🙏✨

[@soumyakantipaul8486]

​@@ForrestKnutson hello sir, My name is Soumya Kanti Paul I have been doing kriyayoga for past 10 months. My mind is so disturbed that initially it was very difficult to chant om as thought comes goes very rapidly that sometimes I even miss some chanting on chakra. But later on I could do the chanting but still thought comes in between chakra om japa. I try to eliminate thought and see the blank space between 2 om japa in chakra but not succeeded till now. Please guide me. What to do?

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@soumyakantipaul8486 that is great and you must not expect your mind to be perfect I hope that you can read my new book which is called mastering meditation because I go over this point again and again. A perfect mind is not for practicing yoga, it is that yoga is to create the perfect mind

[@soumyakantipaul8486]

@@ForrestKnutson is your book available in India?

[@walt-nq4vr]

More and more, of late, the blissing experience -- extent/frequency/duration -- has become my most obvious feedback. It has even begun to show up in the exercises I practice after sitting. So I know that the om japa and navi are having an affect, despite their subtlety. Certainly pulls one forward! Thanks, Forrest!

[@ForrestKnutson]

So amazing, Walt! Well done!! 🙏✨🎄✨

[@stevengiffin1744]

Forest wonderful content. I have purchased your book, it should be a MUST HAVE TXT ON MEDITATION I recommend all that reads this if you want to save money,time and energy then the information in Forest book is wonderful. I have had to read so many books and they were all wonderful, but having a western analytical mind forests explanation and methods will help anyone in any system of meditation. Thank you Forest.

[@MrRelax3737]

THIS TEACHING LANDED!!! 💫🙏 I appreciate your clear communication on these vital issues ♥Thank you FK! Doug Gemmell

[@potatoguy3174]

Thank you! These videos and your book have helped me so much. So glad to know about OM Japa now

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yeah! So wonderful! 🙏✨

[@williamcranstoun9566]

Wow, this is wonderful. This morning I was getting a clearer sense of the roots and feeling also there is no end to the depth and beauty there.

[@pavneetkaur4545]

Amazing! Thank you, Forrest! Surely, a very deep process. I think, these are the fundamentals that should be taught otherwise it all goes haywire. ✨✨🎄🎄

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes! Exactly! These are what keep us on the right track! 🙏✨🎄

[@HMALDANA]

Awesome, Forrest! My first kundalini experience was via Tantra, but other than showing me the experience does exist, it didn't do much regarding my equanimity. I have found Kriya has been way more fruitful in terms of my emotional, psychological, and physical wellbeing. Blessings and blissings!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Fantastic brother, I love hearing that! Blessings and blissings! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@dmt3755]

You are the best, Much love from Morocco

[@kimthomas8535]

Thank you so much Forrest 💓 Such an important topic!

[@jeffdenison4598]

Great video Forrest. Thank you for your service.

[@BC-yg8mm]

Forrest, Thank you for this wonderful video. My path to the present has been a long and arduous. Ten years ago, with the help or meditation, I started clearing the debris that prevented me from being present--longing, trauma, restlessness. The irony is that being present is the antidote to all distractions but getting to this realization and accepting and practicing it is no easy feat. Lately, I’ve realized that when I’m not present, I miss it, or I miss out on something. Today, you clarified the mystery of how the practice of kriya yoga eventually offers the cleansing and clarity needed to be present. Thank you, sir. I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes exactly! It is the low idle state do the parasympathetic that lowers the amount of sensory input. I go over this a lot in my new book.

[@BC-yg8mm]

Thank you, Forrest, I will pick up your book.@@ForrestKnutson

[@user-pe5sm2kx6c]

wow was thinking about this for the past week and poof this video just appears spontaneously. the cleanse felt after a long session of OM japa or even transcendental meditation is real. i notice i am not driven by fear and that my thinking is of better quality since my ego is not overly attached to what will go wrong in the future ( fear based thinking). I feel the bliss subtly when i combine it with the HRV, especially when i relax the face with something like a clay face mask. one other idea is to maybe combine it with homa or a fire ceremony, that way the pupils will naturally dilate when looking at the fire ( almost like a natural haukala) thus further leading to expansion.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Fantastic! Yes, that's perfect! 🙏✨

[@jamesjasonallen4168]

Curious about your experience with TM. I’ve been following the program on AYP for a few months now and the main part of it is DM (deep meditation), which is basically the same as TM. AYP also has elements of kriya, the main practice is called spinal breathing pranayama, which I’ve come to understand is basically kriya pranayama. I’ve noticed that the DM has lead to a lot more inner silence, but also a kind of mental unfocusedness. This hasn’t changed much in the past few months so I’m looking into Forrest’s stuff. Do you still practice TM regularly alongside OM japa and HRVRB?

[@user-pe5sm2kx6c]

@@jamesjasonallen4168 yes. The spinal breathing or sushumna breathing is real and you can feel it stronger and stronger later on. I will check out AYM, seems interesting. Yes i do TM before my kriya sessions because it makes kriya so much easier. TM removes the mental fog and constant wordiness ( constantly articulating and saying sentences) so the mind is more silent. Its a manadatory thing in my practice.

[@jamesjasonallen4168]

@@user-pe5sm2kx6c whats the order in which you do the different practices?

[@user-pe5sm2kx6c]

@@jamesjasonallen4168 start off with TM for 30min. then move onto OM japa for another 30min. Then for 45min-60min I do HRV/BPV+ Om Japa.

[@jannareindel6263]

Thank you so much!❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you so much! 🤩🤗🙏

[@ShivaCVIII]

I love you Forrest Knutson, you're explanations are so enjoyable!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Awe, thank you! I'm so glad! 🙏

[@petercartwright1804]

Some traditions see the perineum area as the "doorway" of the root chakra in the spine. Awesome video !

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Peter! 🙏✨

[@markluma98]

Beautifully explained, as always guruji !

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Mark! 🙏🎄🙏🎄

[@vimaladominic]

Atma namaste sir heartfelt gratitude God bless much love for this wonderful video 🙏🙏🙏❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

Atma namaste Vimala! Blessings and blissings! 🙏✨🙏✨

[@joyb5525]

Forrest, how are you? As usual, lesson was very reassuring. Thank you 😊

[@TheJillianJiggss]

I have a Tantric teacher. He's a well known scholar. We work from the back of the chakras, there's also more than one chakra system. I feel the most potent energy in my back of my energy centres. I'll add that not everyone has a bottom up awakening, you can have the reversal too.

[@SivaS-fe7rp]

Thank you to share your wonderful experience of Bliss you had. Just wanted to know when do you think you will attain Nirvikalp Samadhi. Will it happen this Birth according to your experiences your going through.

[@NinjaArts]

Nice! 🙏 Do you have experience with Jhana states? Is this something that overlaps with, or overlays, your own practice?

[@rkatz0]

Excellent!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Many thanks! 🙏

[@_Ram.352]

Om sri gurubhyo namah

[@poonleeman]

When i aum into the chakras do i put my awareness on the spine ? Or on the front of the body ?

[@MilanTodorovic]

Amazing! Thanks! But with lot off repetitive work, at the end, both practices will give same result ❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! Morocco, how cool!🙏✨

[@ryan.altman]

Thank you for the video! OMing from front to back is a subtlety to Kriya I haven't come across in my years of practice and study. I've always done OMs from the back into the spine. I will definitely give this technique a try. Is the frontal 'gateway' chakra energy related to the ventral vagus nerve? This is where all the social functions are, so it makes sense given how you've described the energy. In that case, would the origin of the chakras relate to the dorsal vagal nerve? Thank you again!

[@dakotahsimonson631]

Tantra magick reminds of huna... tho I prefer Om japa I think I don't need to feel any where I just Om internally and I get led to the right places 😊

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes! They are all so magical! 🙏

[@dakotahsimonson631]

There wonderful tools 🔧!!🤩

[@fhoniemcphonsen8987]

Nice. Thanks.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! 🙏

[@BrigittePatrice4750]

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[@55555pala]

see christopher wallis: the real story on the chakras

[@bharathyaadavk.n1470]

What is shadow work?

[@abhi1779]

Forest is awesome

[@nancyswanson1362]

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[@mdasgupta8703]

Namaste Forrest ! I had written to you a while ago regarding interest in Kriya initiation but have not heard back . Could you please clarify your contact info so I can write again ? Thank you !

[@GodReplyMe]

​​@@hemant5158hahaha you are indian and want to learn kriya yoga from him 😂 tumne sidh kar diya ki bahar bale yaha aa rhe aur yaha balo ko bahar ki pdi he

[@mdasgupta8703]

I am happy to pay his fees but I want to know what it is for the initiation. That is what I asked about . I want to know how one makes an appointment and gets started @@hemant5158

[@LuisFelipe-ox7kv]

Hello Forest, what can it be when we have tamasic effects when applying OM japa in to the chakras? Sometimes instead of feeling clean and blissful, I feel a kind of torpor, I feel closed off. Forgive me if there are any errors in English, I'm from Brazil and I'm using Google Translate to formulate this sentence lol.

[@ForrestKnutson]

When we enter into a low-idel-state, then we begin to merge with the slower brainwaves. This is a natural progression of meditation, and so we want to be well rested, and interested in our meditation so we can survive this "gauntlet of sleep" as I call it. As the Kahuna say, we go down, to then go up.

[@seane.9937]

Dear brother, when doing ohm japa do you focus your OHMs at the spine area for each chakra? I have just been in the general area. I'm wondering if my ohm japa will be more effective if I focus on the spine area. Thank you for a great vid. Very informative

[@ForrestKnutson]

Think and feel it going towards the spine. This way we are always pointing towards the Origin. 🙏✨

[@user-sk1og6um7g]

Thanks Can you tell are there 6 level or 7 level in kriya yoga?

[@aloksahu7208]

🙏🙏🙏

[@anuragsaha2632]

My problem during om japa is that when I do in the throat centre and then my toungue wants to enter kechari, so i put it in stage 3 kechari. This sort of breaks my concentration. When I do it in my manipura, my stomach goes into a vacuum pose, stays there for a while, and returns to normal. There is all sorts of weird belly dancing movements 😅This sort of break my concentration and my SVS. What do I do? Help, brother Forrest 😊 ❤❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

These are automatic kriyas, which can be spontaneous, or from your previous practices. Try just a very light mental OM and tell the body to relax, relax, relax. Go this way just a little bit at a time until the subconscious calms down and accepts the calm physical state. 🙏✨

[@anuragsaha2632]

@ForrestKnutson I just tried your method. It makes so much difference. I can still feel the peace after meditation. The only problem is when breath becomes tranquil and the vagus complex slowly tightens up , I stop breathing, and it becomes hard to breathe. I can feel some energy moving from my heart to ajna when this happens. But after this, I gasp and take a big breath, which breaks my concentration.

[@vimaladominic]

Sir i noticed the beautifully attended book shelf...my humble request is that the pictures of the Gurus should be above your head .when you sit on the chair.. ..kindly do the needful. Thanx a lot..🙏🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Oh yes! They are above me, but maybe I can move them up a little more so it is easy to see. 🙏✨

[@vimaladominic]

@@ForrestKnutson love you so much sir

[@vimaladominic]

@@ForrestKnutson love you so much sir

[@afagaras4962]

I watch your videos with translation. I am from Turkey. I don't speak English. Yesterday I purchased your breathing course. It’s a pity that there is no application with PDF or Word. Please make courses with applications. Thank you

[@ForrestKnutson]

Can you send me a message at [e-mail] please. I'm working on a transcription for you.

[@afagaras4962]

Thank you🙏🌹

[@afagaras4962]

@@ForrestKnutson I wrote you

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@afagaras4962 excellent, just give me a few days to finish editing the transcript

[@fredreygan]

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