Leaving Yogananda

Someone asked me to tell more of the story of picking up training with Ashok Singh, which changed my life.
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Thank you to Doug Gemmell for the amazing music!

[@walt-nq4vr]

One of my teachers said, "It is through us that Reality expands." Forrest, you are an example of this. Your candid account of your experiences and feelings answer so many questions that arise. Thanks, as always.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Beautiful Walt, thank you so much! That means a lot to me.

[@arobersonable]

Yes, I love this. Yogananda isn't the only guru in my life, but I still say good morning and good night to his photo every day-and when he does speak to me, it's undeniably him as opposed to a spirit guide. But the guru is definitely inside me- an impossible sense to really explain in words.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful Amy 🤩🙏🌹

[@LAVA-el5yt]

Thank you Brother. It is so helpful to hear your experience and insight. Becoming part of a community and having serious teachers is new to a lot of westerners and Americans. It's so good to be reminded of the necessity of having our own agency in being the student, having teachers and becoming our own teacher eventually.

[@joshuamiller5701]

Incredible video ! I'm speechless Sri M studied with MANY people after finding his Guru, he studied with Krishnamurti ..etc - his Guru encouraged it, this is a great teacher, one that doens't try to make you feel guilty but only cares about your progress and mind expansion and progress and being a well rounded human that can help their family and the world. God bless Forrest

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you brother! Exactly right and so well said! 🌹🌹🙏🙏

[@mwayqassim]

Hey Forrest, Mway here from Nairobi, Kenya. Your words have a certain field of resonance that is like music I haven't heard before yet sounds so much like home. I started with the 3 breaths per minute HRV video about a year and a half ago and its been so much of a gift that keeps expanding. Your videos have grown for me from being instructions and manuals to bliss to now being simply an automatic meditation. I can simply put your videos on and spontaneously combust into this spaciousness that has become part of my yogic skillset, as you term it. Thank you for making this available especially for people like me whose backround would not allow such a candid and wholesome scope on Kriya Yoga. Pranam. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@SH-ud8wd]

Loyalty ist the highest law (Yogananda).

[@freddykrueger8759]

Reading the autobiography of a yogi again and again like steve jobs did is just wonderful...thanks for the video😊

[@rebeccaaldrich3396]

Wow! What a playlist this channel has. Im really grateful for the wonderful information. Thank you ❤

[@cjelvado]

Your videos are always so genuine, positive, and inspiring. I really appreciate the fact that you share your insights with us. Thank you 🙏

[@TheEb3b]

Sometimes when I feel "stuck" I'll click on a new YT video. As you said, there are many ways of saying the same thing. Some of the random clicking has led me to a deeper understanding and many other times it seems like marketing. Your teachings are so simple yet deep and I have used them to answer questions other meditators have raised. Thank you!

[@ruah5617]

You're the best brother! Thanks for cutting thru the layers! I've been blessed with many great teachers as well, and I've felt concerns over the years; "is it this? Is it that?, maybe over there? 😂" But that fire on top of my head has never let me down, although sometimes, I'm like "why here lord ?" Lol Anyhow thanks 🎉

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's fantastic 🤩🙏🌹

[@byrneklay]

Great insightful video. Us human beings are so diverse. We all seem to need something just a little different from each other. Thank you so much.

[@reedgage7689]

Great exposition. I can really relate to this ! Finding a person who can lead you to the experience of Samadhi.... and do not concern yourself with ashram/guru politics

[@RahulDas-nz6iy]

Guru ji, I am choked with emotion & can say for sure that Babaji guided me to you when I was completely lost & not progressing. I started watching your videos & started with HRV & immediately experienced the truth of what you were saying. I really wish that all people in need of a true guru find you the way I did. Thanks for being there & guiding me 🙏🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Amazing Rahul! Thank you so much! You've come so far so fast! 🤩🙏🌹🌹

[@christinebaker7311]

Same for me. I feel like Yogananda directed me to Forrest. Forrest presents the lessons in a way that I understand. Yogananda’s wording was so confusing and I couldn’t bring myself to do the hong sau. Something about that didn’t sit right with me. The resonant breathing makes so much more sense to me.

[@giuseppenossini4705]

Your explanation resonates so much with my viewpoint and you found the right words to express such difficult topics, that's a gift not many teachers have. Thank you for sharing so openly with all!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you so much!

[@moisesdeniz1602]

When you see different forms ponting to the same essential truth that's wonderful, that only adds beauty to that.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes, exactly 🤩🙏

[@mokoforever]

It was my comment that you responded to. Thank you so much for your video explanation!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Jamme! 🤩🙏

[@jhayalexander8982]

6/2/23. Wow! Thank you. This is pretty amazing. Have been involved w/ many teachers, since the early 1980's. The last major one was Sogyal Rinpoche, who passed in 2019. Thank you for mentioning: "Kill the Buddha on the Road". That is a Zen Parable. I too have been in front of many teachers, including Mother Teresa, in Calcutta, December 1989, and H.H. the xivth Dalai Lama, in Dharamsala, March -April, 1990. Thank you. merci. Julian

[@ForrestKnutson]

Beautiful Julian! Yes, I love that parable! 😍 🙏🌹

[@jhayalexander8982]

7/26/23. Wow! I am still way overwhelmed, by "all that happened to Sogyal Rinpoche". He passed in 2019, Thailand. Last time I saw him was 2016, California. All my way close friends had been with him for years and decades. I used to be in such awe and extreme reverance for all things Buddhist, especially Tibetan Buddhists. So, (briefly), I was way involved in research into life of Theos C. Bernard, (1908-2004). Found his book on "Hatha Yoga", Feb. 1982, in Bombay, whilst attending: Annual International Transpersonal Association Conference, at the Oberoi Hilton, Bombay, Feb. 1982. While conference was going on, was asked, during break to go w/ some individuals, up an elevator. Up we went, to 'whatever floor', we walked down hallway, into a rm. that had others all gathered around, in the middle of group was: Babaji! I had no idea who I was viewing. Had only been in Bombay a few days. Was in the rm. w/ Babaji about 45 minutes. Then, we all went back down to Conference. Wow! Mother Teresa was there, H.H. the Dalai Lama was to have attended, but was sick. Place was filled w/ way famous people, authors, etc. So, 'round 1984, started writing people in India about Theos Bernard, and his sudden death, Northern India, in 1947. By 1987, was back in India and Nepal. Went on my own Buddhist pilgramage, and met w/ Dalai Lama and his associates. At: The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, I interviewed elderly man, who remembered seeing Theos in Lhasa, 1937. Was also put in touch w/ Jigme and Mary Taring, in Dehra Dun, who were mentioned extensively in Theos' vol. from 1939, of his travels through Tibet, entitled: "Penthouse of the Gods". This was in March 1988. Anyway, Theos and his family had connections all over the world. He was related to famous Sufi Master: Hazarat Inayat Khan, through marriage of Ora Ray Baker, a second cousin to Mary Baker Eddy and her 'half brother' was Theos' uncle: Dr. Pierre Bernard, aka. Oom the Omnopotent. Amazingly, Pierre Bernard, was way famous Yogi, on the East coast, around the turn of the century. So, 1988, wound up receiving letters and postcards from a Kamala Gertrude E. Murray, of Calimesa, Calif. She found out about me, through an advertisement I'd been told to put in: "The Middle Way", The Journal of the Buddhist Society, of London. Turns out, that a female Buddhist Nun and friend of Kamala's saw my article, and contacted Kamala, who then wrote to me. She was a caregiver/ student/disciple of Glen A. Bernard; Theo's father, and the whole Bernard family, in the 1950's-1970's. She invited me out to California. Her house was a museum, of Tibetan artifacts from Lhasa, that Theos brought back w/ him from India and Tibet. In her main dining rm. area was a huge Tiger Skin rug that Pierre Bernard had bought from P. Yogananda, in order to help P.Y. on his travels, when he 1st arrived, in the '20's. The Bernard's were living in Northridge, California then. Kamala told me of a huge list of 'whos who", in the Indian and Buddhist circles of California at that time. W.Y. Evans Wentz; Lama Govinda; P. Yogananda; Alan Watts, etc....One of the absolute horrors she witnessed, back then was when the father: Glen A. Bernard had taken all of the many boxes of letter and correspondence that Theos had from all around the world, and pored gasoline on them and set them on fire, in a large trash can! She was just absolutely devastated. But, he had lost all hope. Had Theos returned, they already had plans to set up a school environment where Tibetan Monks would be brought in as future teachers. (Very close to where Ronald Reagan had his retirement ranch, North of Santa Barbara). Two of these were to have been: Gendun Chopel and Geshe Wangal, author of: "Door of Liberation". Theos Bernard never made it back from his destination of North India. Kamala specifically told me, he was on a journey to find the Tibetan manuscripts that were discovered by Nicolas Notovitch, in the 1880s's that mentioned Jesus having traveled to the region of Srinagar, Kashmir and northern India, 2000 years ago. His party was attacked by Hindu's during the separation of India and Pakistan, Fall of 1947. He was dressed in disguise, and may have had beard etc...to blend in better w/ natives. He was shot and thrown into a river. His body was never recovered. In 1990, I again reuturned to North India. Again I stayed w/ Jigme and Maryla Taring. Had ventured up to Kulu/ Manali area, where Theos was staying, 1946. Met the eldest son of Prof. Nicolas Roerich, and he told me, that his father had warned Theos not to travel "right then". As also had Swami Sivananda, of Risikesh, U.P. warned Theos, as well, when Theos was passing through Rishikesh, on his journey North, in 1946-1947. So, in 2004, With all my papers, recordings, notebooks and photographs an author by the name of Doug Veenhoff came to my house, and I shared it all with him. In 2011, he came out w/ biography on Theos Bernard. As did Buddhist scholar Paul Hackett, a year or so later. Theo's Tibetan collection is now scattered all over California, in Museums and Libraries. Have yet to see any of them. Blessings to thee, dear sir. I so love watching all of your videos. Theos had major yoga teacher, in Ranchi, Bihar. Not associated w/ P. Yogananda. Blessings to thee, dear sir. Would love to get your book. Sincerely: Julian. Boulder, Colo. Aum ah Hung!

[@arobersonable]

So important-you taught me this. I truly felt the authoritarian overlay to both SRF and Ananda. I knew I would never fit in but now I see why. This vid is a masterpiece.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Amy! 🔥🔥🌹🌹🙏🙏

[@HMALDANA]

That's why I love your approach, Forrest. It's warm, welcoming, profound and effective. I'll let you know when my hair goes Super Saiyan a la Goku! Blessings and blissings!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Hahaha! Oh my God, I adore Super Saiyan mode! 🤩🤩🔥🔥💪💪🙏🙏

[@HMALDANA]

@@ForrestKnutson 😂 Same here, my man, same here!

[@dasi_is_dasi]

So beautiful!! I am grateful everyday that i was able to come across this fantastic lineage. and with you as my guru, i have learned so much, and actually made tons and tons of progress that it has been hard to say it all. i see that you are doing an amazing service for the world. i was lucky in my journey early on, and i would say that Krishna is my true guru, but you've opened up an entirely new world for me! can't really pick favorites hehehe. jaya ma!

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's wonderful Amber! 🙏

[@AspergersversusNeurotypicals]

Hello Forrest, great video with such a fantastic message. Growing up I only had Jesus to learn from, and looking back, I recall his most profound phrase to me was 'the kingdom of God is within', however I never was offered access to HOW to manifest that kingdom. Thanks to you dear friend :D I now do have access. so thanks :D for all you do.

[@mortalclown3812]

Sometimes, I wonder what Jesus said - and did - that was edited from the texts. On the other hand, the lights of 'many mansions' have been bright over the millenia. And it always makes my heart warm when I feel unity in Spirit with my fellow humans. The path isn't narrow at all. Paz y luz 💫

[@phijk66461]

Thank you for this Forrest! This video really made my day!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you brother! That's so fantastic! 🤩🤩🙏🙏

[@viafrequency]

Such a great message, as always Forrest. Thank you for bringing clarity & resolve to common distortions in such a beautiful way. Grateful for you. 🫶🏽

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you so much 🤩 🙏 love your channel btw! 🙌🙌

[@Go2AM]

Well described Forrest. Just sharing..Lord Dattatreya or Shri Guru Dattatreya is a Hindu deity considered to be an aspect of the holy trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. The Nath tradition of Shaivism has originated from Dattatreya and he is considered to be the Adi Guru or the first teacher of the Nath sampradaya (or tradition) and the followers of the Nath sect. The followers of the Nath sect believe and it is found in their literature that Lord Dattatreya had 24 Gurus including the earth, water, air, fire, sky, sun, moon..and so on.

[@imck76]

I love you and Ashok SO much.

[@pentegarn1]

I'm a Kriyaban...and yes I've heard kind of the same thing since 1990. All I can say are some are just geared to stay and curl up in that...and some like you are not. I was not also. But I still love SRF because they let us leave. Unlike many groups. And for that I've kept a heart connection to the SRF.

[@mortalclown3812]

That's cool to know.

[@rodgerrugeresiliencecoach772]

Beautifully presented Forrest, we are so very blessed to have you pointing the way Brother.

[@kimthomas8535]

Thank you so much! I enjoy combining ideas from different lines of thought. None fit my point of view in themselves, my experiences, so this discussion was very helpful 💕

[@ForrestKnutson]

Perfect Kim! I'm so glad! 🤩🙏🌹

[@AspergersversusNeurotypicals]

I really resonate with this comment Kimthomas. Even in engineering and math, to see the problem from multiple perspectives is paramount. This way you really begin to live the concepts and can find the territory. Forrest you seem to present that view that speaks to me.

[@dianecurran3648]

Thank you Forrest! Beautiful! It all becomes a grand adventure. …..”the river of my life flows into the ocean of Life and loses itself in bliss.” 🙏🤩🌊🌊🌊

[@ForrestKnutson]

Perfect as usual Diane! 🤩🌹🙏🌊🌊🌊

[@craigphillips6308]

There comes a time when every 'seeker' must realize that they already are what they are looking for. Why have so few realized this? because the mind keeps telling us that we will find what we are looking for 'out there'; in a teacher, or a job, or a relationship. Only when we turn our eyes around and look within will we 'find' what we are looking for; in the Silence that is here and now.

[@lgude]

Western presuppositions naturally and unconsciously make their way into our spiritual explorations of Eastern spiritual traditions. We grow up in one culture or another like fish in water which is invisible to the fish. The free book Buddhist Romanticism explores this phenomenon in Western Buddhism. I really love your openness to the inner apprehension of truth regardless from which tradition it arises.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Exactly! Well said and thank you for the wonderful book recommendation! 🤩🙏🌹

[@christinebaker7311]

Western culture I’m general seems very dogmatic in being all or nothing.

[@sreedharchinna]

As always, this answers so many of my questions and confusions in my path. I can confirm that points you made are correct.

[@peterhook2258]

This teacher is really speaking my language. Great video. So many scammers out there and this does not appear to be one of them...protecting from the dangers, answering questions about the process, providing a safe platform that safely and adjust its speed to the student. Seems to make sense for sure. My Guru is Yeshua or "The Word". All others are submitted to him, knowing it or not imo (which is my authority). Also normally I do not appreciate paywalls however I have recently gained insight on how important it is to support teachers (they need it even Buddha taught it). I also heard somewhere "pay for the truth but never sell it" . And in this case I very may well be on board. Perhaps "when the student is ready the teacher appears" is true. I separate "spirituality" and "the tools of competence". One without the other is for some, but not for me at this time. With my newly enforced concept...no authority but the divine within, I feel the statement..no more middleman. (I have one exception ie "The Word" which is within)

[@shanti34567]

Very. U h like my. Life experience, too. My path has, for 76 years, been a mixture that formed my own.

[@carpenterfamily6198]

I thought the same ~ when I’ve heard ‘ guru hopping ‘ referred to derisively. Paramahansa was true to his search for truth above all else, and if he had to talk to 30 gurus to find it then he would. Make no apologies. Let nothing hinder you from finding truth.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Exactly, Kevin! 🙏🙏🙏

[@Pagala-Pa]

This is a beautiful video, it moved me to search for the interview you had with your guru, and it was enlightening, given that he was able to start afresh with a new guru he invited to India (after he had been initiated into the Kriya fellowship). And this has moved me to ask if I can be initiated into your lineage of Kriya yoga, and practice under your guidance? Thank you.

[@subhaarthanari9323]

That was a powerful teaching thanks so much for sharing and being our beacon Namaste Guruji

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Subha! 🤩🌹🙏🌹🙏

[@pavneetkaur4545]

How amazing! Don't know when will I reach myself? Trying but may be there is a shortcoming in my trying that needs addressing. Please help me to overcome that shortcoming, Forrest! 🙏🙏🌹🌹🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

You're doing fantastic and it's all coming together. Keep working with the Freeze Response and everything will reveal itself!

[@vsaitta]

Thank you so very much for directing guruji! 🕉🕉🕉🙏🙏🙏📿📿📿

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Victor! 🤗🤩🙏🌹🌹

[@adammitchell5683]

Anyways you know me and that being said ...thank you for this ...i have come to appreciate you

[@Naser-eq8pd]

I am quietly agree with you, you are. Absolutely rigth

[@ericsonhazeltine5064]

Wonderful training! Thank you so much!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Ericson!

[@DFENDR33]

Absolutely true Forrest. Maybe your future self which reached Samadhi/The Source/Brahman/God is reaching out to bring you there and is your true inner Guru. As far as I know there is no time and space in the region of the 1 Million sun´s. (and no I and you) Also this quote by Sri Maheshwar Prasad Dubey is great: "The real teacher is the teaching itself. The true lineage is the practice itself."

[@davidelliott9661]

In my awakening I was given information from my unconscious mind that didn't just connect The Bible it connected The Kabbalah and Sacred Geometry and The Book of Thoth, and it was going deep into Sanskrit. It becomes so deep It freaks me out. I've learned to have a high regard for women in my rebirth and for myself. I've relearned what love is.

[@velvetpaws999]

Nobody of us owns anything in particular. We do not have a patent of some exclusive knowledge. All the knowledge is inside of each one of us, and it is the same for all. We need to free ourselves from all kinds of illusions and "lila". Playing is OK, but one has to know that we are only playing "life". Our true life is eternal and nothing else. Once we are the clear channel, we can get all the answers from within us. That is the only way to come into the possession of any kind of true, eternal knowledge. So, we fertilize each other, and we can also "download" all knowledge directly from within our spiritual heart! How wonderful is that!

[@realilty]

With the help of the Guru. The greatest masters all had a Guru. We aren't our own guru.

[@varenyaaum]

Thank you Forrest Ji. Thank you for everything🕉. Would love to see you someday😀

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Varenya!

[@Srividhya1682]

Path is the focus, gurus will be guiding light in the path. Keep going until true guru within is found. Wonderful sharing ❤️

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes, perfect! Well said!

[@WOLF-ci4du]

@@ForrestKnutson can you expand the fact that when you are brrahmachary in the organisation you have a Samadhi along with a series of negative effects for the Practice of Pranayama without Om japa? ( That i have the good look of avoid for early cam to know the japa along Kriya Pranayama)?

[@rkatz0]

What a gem!!!!!!!!! Thanks!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Awe, thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

[@joyful3473]

I was in the ashram as well --- for a very long time. In my experience "the guru" cannot be confined to a person, a body certainly not a place. The organization makes Yogananda very small, but I guess that is the only way that an organization can preserve itself or better preserve the "status quo."

[@yogasamrat]

Acharyaji your discourse is invaluable! Thank you for your love and truth!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you brother, blissings! 🤩🙏🌹

[@dakotahsimonson631]

Thank you 💖😇 I love this story

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Dakotah

[@dakotahsimonson631]

So much bliss 😇😆

[@martinelongum9921]

Thankyou ❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Martine!

[@jannareindel6263]

I love this Forrest! Thank you so much! Again !

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! 🤩 🙏🌹🤗

[@brawlpups3517]

This does address the questions I have but don't see stated regarding the various Yogananda groups and obedience to one school, one guru, one path. It makes me feel freer to carry on with a more open path. My own influences are multivarious, and I think I am glad not to be part of any group but those that I meet as I travel the journey.

[@shanti34567]

Canada. Sounds like one of my Kenya initiators, M. Govindan

[@lindaburton1114]

Thank you so much Forrest. I am so grateful that I found you.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Linda! 🤩🙏🌹

[@robinriches7798]

What a fab teacher.

[@succmymeme572]

Even Gautama Buddha had met multiple Indian gurus and have practiced various different techniques before gaining enlightenment

[@ForrestKnutson]

Exactly Viabhav! That's a perfect example.

[@vimaladominic]

Atma namaste sir heartfelt gratitude God bless much love 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

Atma namaste Vimala! Blessings and blissings to you and your family! 🙏🙏🙏

[@PrudentStudent666]

My problem is that the criticism that occurs once someone leaves a system. One video that I watched had a lot of statement that Self Realization's techniques were wrong. A lot of churches criticize other churches as if they are the only one teaching the right path. That really turns me off about religion. To me it seems like a big ego thing. My school is the best, my country, my church......

[@ForrestKnutson]

That might have been the video with my guru, Ashokji. Where he expressed very plainly his disappointment when he realized that the technique which they represented had been altered and they never bothered to bring it up to him. After years of practice you have to attempt to understand the level of betrayal that you might feel in that moment. Nowadays this understanding on the history of the technique is common knowledge. But in his time it was not and the shock of it was overwhelming, along with the regret for your own years of wrong practice.

[@colleencarone8650]

Love this! ❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Collen! 🙏🙏

[@vimaladominic]

Amazing eye opening experience sir.. ❤🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Vimala! 🤩🙏🌹

[@FrankDeLalla]

Forrest, YOU are the "coolest cat Indian guru" of all time. 🫵🤓🫶🙏 Ran into this video today, and reminded me of all the incredibly helpful things I've learned from you and how much I appreciate your work in and out of youtube. Have a great day, my brother and teacher. It just hit me that I CANNOT imagine what it would be like NOT to have a whole bunch of your ideas in my heart, mind and in my breathing EVERY day. 🕊✝

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@FrankDeLalla amazing! 🪷🙏🪷🤗🤩

[@charleswilson8038]

The true guru is within you. You are the guru. Tn see the true guru you must remove this ego. Until than, keep searching, keep inquiring. Keep being aware. There is only one guru within you.

[@adityatumuluru6634]

Namaste Forest, many greetings to you. I have been initiated into kriya yoga by YSS earlier this year. I have some form of clinical depression, and kriya yoga is increasing my fear and anxiety. I have asked YSS and didnt receive a satisfactory response, as many people were unfamiliar with psychological concerns. Should i stop the practice of kriya, or continue it with a limited count(mild),etc? I am very enthusiastic to practice kriya. I seek your guidance and help sir.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Please look at the video I just posted, and also at the Guardian video which is recent on my channel.

[@CarlosAugusto-zf8tv]

Hi Forrest, Loved your video. I would like to ask you if the second kriya uses the mantra OM NAMO BHAGAVATE VASUDEVAYA with head movement on the syllable for each chakra?

[@ForrestKnutson]

Hi Carlos, you'd need to study with me for some time before I can be sure to give you the second technique of kriya, and I wouldn't be able to do that through YT. 🙏

[@jcsjournals]

Forrest you are a blessing

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you so much! 🙏

[@davidslade-b7x]

Hey, serious question- when I pray hard and long and meditate I discover that my head begins to slowly involuntarily rotate or move up, down and side to side/this really bothers me.... do u know what this means ?

[@selvamthiagarajan8152]

My take away, that I agree with you , is that one could have many gurus or subscribe to many spiritual teachings.

[@nancyswanson1362]

What negative results were experienced from practicing wrong Kriya?

[@ForrestKnutson]

I need to dedicate a video just to that, thank you Nancy! 🌹🌹🙏🙏

[@TheBhannah]

Very cool !

[@fhoniemcphonsen8987]

As always thanks so much. And a dumb question that just occurred to me, is the way that the mind / brain projects into the chakras the same way we relate to what we perceive as the outside world?

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes, that's exactly right. So anything that we hold inside becomes part of what we see outside. Psychologists called this projection and the chakras give us a wonderful tool to understand all of this projection.

[@UlrichBuehrle]

Hi Forrest: What is your view on The Wholeness Work form Connirae Andreas? I would love to hear from you!

[@shanti34567]

Is this the Connirea who was one of the original. NLP developers?

[@edward6768]

What is Haccala (spelling is probably off,)

[@TheTirailleur]

Have you met peoples that have some great experience in practicing but suddenly stop and practice erratically, and so how they overcome it ? I face that eventho, I know it do good to me.

[@ForrestKnutson]

I have an older video called spiritual survival. I talked about starting with your minimum. So start with 5 minutes of meditation everyday and no matter what the UPS & Downs of your practice keep your commitment to that 5 minutes. This way you start to create a wonderful habit that sustains you no matter what occurs in your life. Now you can begin to build on this time and the days that are conducive you growth at 5 minutes into however much meditation you can handle that day.

[@TheTirailleur]

@@ForrestKnutson Thanks you very much for your explanations and suggestions. Will do !

[@davydsol8471]

Oh stop it! All this authentic truth is very tuff!.. haha just joking! You speak the greatest truth that we all need to hear-and that is not a joke. Thank you for your words 🙏🏾

[@mortalclown3812]

😊

[@UlrichBuehrle]

Yes she is a NLP legend 😃

[@LuisFelipe-ox7kv]

🙏

[@akc1739]

I found this talk so interesting! I need some help, please. The Kriya path has been calling me since the start of this year, and I’ve obliged, but I am so green! I don’t know where to begin in truly feeling into and understanding the chakras. Information overload on line. Can you suggest reputable sources? I’m on #9 in the new SRF lesson series, btw. I’m hop-scotching all over the Internet for direction. A kundalini class here, a Kriya asana series there. I have so many questions. Yes, my true guru is within, but I need basic tools (mantras, etc) to not be spinning my wheels! I do the asana sequence daily and log into SRF meditations online. But I feel there’s something I’m missing in this limited, disjointed approach. 🙏

[@shanehacker552]

There are so many videos on this channel and they all have have excellent comment sections. So i feel like my question has already been discussed, but what exactly is kriya initiation and is it required to practice kriya yoga. Is it something akin to reki attunement? Which i also have no idea about whats involved.

[@bharatiekbote4452]

Namaste. I received Diksha through YSS in 2022. I totally resonate with your views. In India, from whom can I learn true Kriya? Please guide.

[@WhatsItLikeToBeEnlightened]

I did the kriya lessons many years ago through SRF and moved on as well... I enjoy your lessons and authenticity. I wish you luck in your unfolding journey.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you 🙏

[@luism.rodriguez3263]

I think I understand the explanation expressed on “leaving Yogananda”; but I really think that what was left behind was really the “ownership” of Kriya and its church like implementation. I do not think that Yogananda was left behind. Om Tat Sat! 🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's a wonderful way to put it Luis! 🤩🌹🙏🌹

[@luism.rodriguez3263]

@@ForrestKnutson Forrest, you have really explained the internal debate that I have been srtuggling with for sometime now. I have been in the yoga and meditation practice since the 70’s but feel that I have advanced very little in spite of the fact that I do feel much nearer to God. I on e wrote you on an experience I had in meditation and you kindly explained and congratulated me because that was the third eye. I have had some other experiences but have not shared them with you. Attempt to clarify doubts through SRF (I subscribed to the lessons and called in but to no avail). I realize that what you have described is just what is keeping me a bit apart from SRF; although I love Yogananda, I feel that the structure is too rigid and allows little flexibility. I am certain that Master did not have this design in mind. I thank you for what you do and feel that there is a possibility that I may decide to come closer to your work and teachings ( I have to clear my sense of guilt since I so love Master and am ever grateful to him for all his work). Is there a way that I can communicate with you and have a sense of the lessons and how they may help me continue the journey. One of my purposes of the lessons was to be initiated in Kriya but have been unable to take that step. Thank You, Forrest, for your time and devotion to God and your patience and high sense of non attachment. Om Tat Sat! Luis M. Rodríguez

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@luism.rodriguez3263 beautiful, thank you for sharing so much with us! I think the best thing might be for you to join my patreon and you'll get to see a lot more that I share there, including a bunch of very long satsangs! I also recently wrote out my Kriya program. So that's there as well. Blissings!

[@almir108]

@Forrest Knutson, plesse tell me more about your Kriya program you wrote and how I can have access to it. You may tell me by e-mail or WhatsApp. Just answer me and I will wrote to you for more details. Thank you!

[@bofilipov8030]

Dear Kriyaban Forrest Knutson, I saw your video ‘Leaving Yogananda’, and in my opinion you are on the right path. One thing I could not agree is your view on Samadhi, which is still state of the mind. Practicing Savikalpa Samadhi according to Lahiri Mahasay should be regular Kriya Sadhana, which he terms it Kriya Parawashta. If you are still looking for the original Kriya, without modifications, I could recommend you one of the books which is on your bookshelf, ‘The Divine Incarnation of Panchanan Bhatachariya Chief Disciple of Lahiri Mahasay’. The author, Swami Satyeswarananda, has received Purna Kriya directly from Mahamuni Babaji at Dunagiri Hill, and maybe you can find some useful information in his more than 50 books.

[@pram204]

Hi there! Did you ever get initiated into Kriya 4 (higher Kriya)?

[@aloksahu7208]

I am also lucky sir🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Alok! 🙏

[@achyutha_6637]

Dear Forrest ji Is there any organization for Panchanan Bhatacharya or his teachings in india. If so can I get his address or anything to contact.

[@ForrestKnutson]

I would recommend any of the lineages under Maheshwari Dubeyji. 🙏🌹

[@achyutha_6637]

🙏🙏🙏

[@seaweedhero1707]

10:49 Not "Leaving Yogananda" ... More "Leaving SRF."

[@FriarTuck-hh4ph]

I agree that his system is probably incomplete. Raja yoga is a spiritual science and I think if certain parts are missing from this problems will arise because it's incomplete. I don't understand why he would leave out certain important parts. Doesn't Yogananda know that this can create problems for people? I'm sure he knew this

[@angelo.garcia]

What do you think of the lineage of Shibendu (greatgrandson of Lahiri)? I know that in my country has an acharya that initiates his lineage. Is this the original one too? I am a kriyaban from a lineage that i know it changed the technique, but i like it. I confess that your vídeo made me feel better, i used tô feel guilty for that...but the fact they changed the technique and i couldnt figure out why is making me crazy 😂

[@ForrestKnutson]

I can heartily recommend all of the lineages under Maheshwari Dubeyji. 🙏🙏🙏

[@angelo.garcia]

@@ForrestKnutson thank you very much 🙏

[@akc1739]

What is Om Japa?

[@tobiasphilippen7883]

Dear Forrest, I deeply respect your decision to try and live the life of a monk. And I can certainly see why you would have your problems with the organizational side of things, with what Yogananda called "churchianity". I do think, though, that you misrepresent Yogananda's teachings. First of all, he taught exactly the same thing which you seem to have discovered only later: that finally God is the guru and that it is his job to bring you to Him. But it is not logical to conclude from this that there is no such thing as *your guru*, meaning one guru with which you have a very sacred and special relationship and who is your way to God. In fact, when you read the Autobiography, Yogananda is clearly talking about Sir Yukteswar as "his guru". Also, in his "Whispers from Eternity" he is praying to his guru, not *his gurus". Or would you have a quote where he calls his father his guru? I would be very surprised. Of course, you have every right to not believe in this or to say "This is not for me". But to say that it is "a misunderstanding" is just good old dogmatism. The very thing that you claim to criticize. Also, it think it is a pity you resort to such click baity titles, when you are not at all talking about why you left Yogananda but much more about why you left the organization.

[@masta12ful]

no point having a dead Guru!!!!!

[@mortalclown3812]

There's no death, bruh. Kind of 101.

[@carpenterfamily6198]

21:19

[@Karaan_Guleria]

Why people are afraid of saying that Yogananda may be renowned guru world wide but he is not great disciple...he changed his guru knowledge ..Lahiri baba was against opening the ashram,lahiri baba was against teaching it openly,lahiri baba was of view that it was very pure and secret science.. Above all yogananda deleted the kechari mudra...Again he may be great known guru but he is not great disciple... He even declared him as last living Kriya guru.According to me Yogananda break the true original lineage of kriya yoga that was taught by Lahirii baba.....Guru ji correct me if iam wrong.....❤❤

[@freds4814]

Remove the middle man! Jai Guru

[@adammitchell5683]

Omg those people make me sick at SRF what a buncha stuff shirts

[@brightchange6065]

It's interesting ... my opinion ... the "Yogananda" name/system has become a little bit of a commercial enterprise and reminds me of religion, at least the "schools" in the US. Seems corrupted by the Western market culture, a bit.

[@ForrestKnutson]

All of the devotees that studied directly with him mentioned in interviews that the spirit was completely different after his passing. 🙏