Isn’t it funny how when the government declares war on something, whether it be drugs or poverty or crime, etc., the thing that is the object of hostility suddenly becomes a problem that never really was a problem and will never go away until the hostility towards the thing is released. This occurrence hints at the true way of peace. There can be no peace through war. War perpetuates itself. If the notion of fighting something is released, then the perceived problem will go away.
In Kriya Yoga one sets in motion two opposing energies and engages them in a sort of war with each other. The proper way to practice Kriya Yoga is to do it so much that you get to a point that the energies come to a peaceful solution with less and less practice. Peace becomes automatic after enough practice. Isn’t that weird? The practice of Kriya is a technique of teaching yourself that it is no use to fight for long because it leads nowhere. One learns it is futile to keep these energies at war with each other. The practitioner learns to stop the war within and engage in a kind of “24/7 Peace”. The yogi learns that the Truest Joy comes from stopping the war, from engaging in a kind of willed death through a conscious invitation born out of experience in meditation, observation and contemplation?
Given the above, Kriya really seems to be a practice in willed death.
Perhaps when the world engages in enough mind-numbing war, the people will finally come to understand that war is futile. Then, perhaps world peace will finally come to all.
Or rather to the survivors…if there are any.
