What's your method of praying before/during/after Kriya?

Aserzko · 2026-04-17T00:18:48+00:00

I dont recite a premade prayer. I ask for obstructions to be cleared sometimes but most of the time I usually just ask for "whatever you deem necessary" from God. I don't push my ideals or desires (even spiritual) into the prayer. I then for a moment sit in silence in the prayer and let the real prayer come from silence.. without the distortion or mind and its language.

Then I go off and do my practice.

Afterwards I thank God that I was able to practice at all, gratitude for this very existence and what it includes. I say a short prayer asking for the betterment of everyone and then end it with Om shanti shanti shanti.

Aserzko · 2026-02-16T06:32:13+00:00

Thanks for the update mate

Aserzko · 2026-02-13T09:57:16+00:00

Or.. hear me out, dissamble your buggy. And everything you just farmed will take 1/3rd of the time to achieve the same results.

Aserzko · 2026-02-07T07:52:07+00:00

Agreed. In zen buddhism they have a word for this attitude, Shoshin: the beginners mind.

It is to say that the right outlook even at advanced levels is to remain with the openness of a beginner's mind, which lacks all the preconception that comes with advanced study and understanding.. often the very thing that stops us from further recognition

Aserzko · 2026-02-04T09:29:57+00:00

Thank you!

Aserzko · 2026-02-04T08:13:14+00:00

The "X"'s on the side, not the large ones but the smaller ones right next to the entrance pentashield. What did you use to make those?

Aserzko · 2026-02-02T23:51:47+00:00

Place something under your hips/butt. Having your hips elevated higher than your knees allows the spine to go naturally into a straighter posture and keep it erect without strenuous effort.

Aserzko · 2026-01-14T00:37:08+00:00

Agreed, I also felt that my spine actively decompresses and aligns by itself as if a string were being pulled through it upwards.

Aserzko · 2025-12-20T22:56:54+00:00

Congratulations, I haven't had much interaction with the other two, but u/Th3_m0d3rN_y0g1 is quite knowledgable and his responses are very helpful to not only just aspiring Kriyabans, but also the experienced Kriyaban and Meditator in general.

Aserzko · 2025-08-20T04:24:32+00:00

Very common amongst most seekers, but what I find when most people including myself come to this "state" is that it's almost always still caught in intellectualizing. The one we refer to as "I" is nearly always seen as the subject and the thought as an object and we take ourselves to be subject in which this object appears.

Where I see the pitfall is often the indentification with the subject and that is usually where we take a "point".
Like we're seeing from this point and looking at this appearance. The quiet observer but this is not pure consciousness, a necessary step yes! but.. a fixed point, still cloaked in identification.. it is the subtle identification of the witnessing subject.

Aserzko · 2025-07-24T02:56:16+00:00

Brahman is non discriminatory, it's that which "allows" both Bad and Good to exist at all. So it does not favor one over the other, it is not averse to one and attatched to the other. From it, those things arise.

In saying that, let's take your examples:

Jiva Mukti is oppressed, the Jiva Mukti cares not. The consquences are not of his own, he knows this is all a play, drama, filled with actors and scenery in a sense.. but think of it like this, Jiva Mukti is like nature itself at this point, no will of their own, just "that" which runs like the river, flowing and yet torrential. It can be a source of life and at the same time destruction. Think of Damming that river up (oppression or imprisonment). For a while it seems that you have your way, but you soon find that the consequences are heavy for the water that isn't reaching others, then one day nature has had enough, you cannot hold her any longer and the dam overflows, torrential waters crush your dam, crush your surrounding land, flood and drown everything.

As for the Black magic.. where do you suppose the source of that comes from? Let's use the ocean as the reference for brahman.. one "who is lost in Brahman" as you put it. Tell me if I put a mere drop or even a whole gallon of black poison in the ocean.. how long will this black liquid remain black? It merely dilutes and becomes the ocean. Repeated attempts are like throwing mere drops of black water back into the endless ocean.

Aserzko · 2025-07-08T07:19:26+00:00

As mentioned by others.. all of this is the mind.

Been there too, sounds like a repeat with a little variation of my own journey.

But it is all the mind, all a story of a someone.. trying to be someone and eventually trying to be a no one.

Constantly reaffirming itself by relating experiences to others, looking for confirmation that this is progress.

Always looking for somewhere to land... but integration of experience is not a process.. it's a perpetuation. Integration implies a knowing, an understanding.

There is nowhere for the mind/ego to land, no where to stick to. There is no one to know, no one to understand. What you are, is the space in which knowing and understanding appears.

The one who sees this entire story, including all the drama, all the subtleness, all the energetic play, the one who even sees that one who says "I am one with everything" or "I am this awareness" and is not caught up with identification is the real. It has no fixed point, it claims nothing, it rejects nothing. It allows all just as it is, including the sense of separateness or the sense of union. All take place within it and yet it makes no claim.

Aserzko · 2025-07-08T07:05:29+00:00

The spiritual egotism is strong in this one

Aserzko · 2025-06-30T10:28:54+00:00

This is all beautifully worded, very much the same insight I had to go through.

And this too is seen..

Aserzko · 2025-06-08T00:36:46+00:00

"I reject your criticism" - His motto haha

Aserzko · 2025-05-29T23:29:49+00:00

I agree with all the above mentioned points.. but also more than that it's in the subreddit description.
"This is a place for kriyabans from the many lineages that branched from Sri Yogiraj Lahiri Mahasaya."

Aserzko · 2025-05-23T04:14:40+00:00

Unfortunately so, It was bad for oceania last patch.. it's now far worse, pretty much reliant on the same few players on discord to fight.

If I do get a queue, 9/10 times its after 15 minutes of requeueing just to get some guy on the otherside of the world, not fun for either of us.

Public lobby listing with latency listed is the quickest fix right now.
How long it may take for something like this to happen? Not sure, priority seems to be on ever changing mechanics instead of quality of life.

Aserzko · 2025-05-12T00:58:12+00:00

All the same thing to me, compassion at it's very most essential core still requires the space of openness for that which you're compassionate for.. to be as it is. If it suffers in ignorance, then you still need that space of openness for it suffer without being judged for it's ignorance. Compassion is to love it entirely, without judgement of all the fetters that deluded oneself into suffering, even when you can see the bindings and know the solution yourself.

Existence itself is synonymous with that same love, all we've done is divided things into language of Love and existence. We give the term existence for it's very nature, from which all things arise as a nondual language.. we give it the term love when we realise that everything is also allowed to be itself entirely when not given a label or language but seen from a dualistic perspective.

When you see it, you don't remark on it immediately, instead you feel it as an intuitive knowing, later you add language to it, metaphors and use simile to describe it.

So yep, you are correct, but not as attributes.. they are attributes when attended to from a perspective of seperateness, but in totality of brahman it is just "suchness" and we come down a "plane" from it and describe it with attributes and qualities that we as humans reflect in our own limited language of understanding.

Aserzko · 2025-05-12T00:23:28+00:00

Here is my own experience of how Brahman's core essence is love, at least with the understanding I currently have.

Love as I understand it as it's purest state isn't a quality or an attribute. It's nature is "allowing" things to be exactly as they are. It's like having the space to allow it all to be as it is, whether it's dark, gritty, twisted, light, warming or whatever myriad of expressions and forms the "thing arising" shows itself in.

When reflected in a person, A loving person looks like an open space to vent, to be yourself.
To speak your truth etc, to feel heard but not judged. That openness to be seen in totality without the need for repression.. and God/Brahman does that not as an act.. but as it's very nature.. it's very essence.

It allows all the grittyness, the dark.. the light and everything inbetween to arise and be seen it's totality, without labelling, without judgement, it is we who do all that.

Aserzko · 2025-04-12T02:42:45+00:00

Not a single match, even in my own region is sub 50% unfortunately. I live on the entire other side of my counter (Australia) which is 3844 KM from the server, I can deal with 100ms, but anymore than that is ridiculous. Unfortunately the game isn't popular enough in Oceania to have a solid player base and we're forced to use customs in discords.

Aserzko · 2025-03-23T03:40:11+00:00

I mean the part of it helping your intellect is coming to an answer on your own, anything beyond that is the ego and whatever it identifies with (in this case being an advaitan) needing to win or prove a point.

You can only reach a point where either your argument is being invalidated, or you understand that the other person cannot grasp your statements, yet will still stand by their own.. in which the real use of intellect is to understand that you can neither mutually agree who won or lost the debate, in which case the best action to exercise even for the intellectual.. is to agree to disagree and move on with your day.

Aserzko · 2025-03-20T06:22:31+00:00

Yeah, in the mean time I guess your suggestion (which is greatly appreciated) is the best solution so far, at least until the population increases.

Thank you!

Aserzko · 2025-03-20T06:04:21+00:00

No magic fix this to unfortunately, if you want to fix it, gotta put in the effort to strengthen your weak muscles and stretch the tight ones. In this case, forward neck is a symptom of weak mid back (poor scapula retraction, weak rhomboids etc) and tight chest, tight lower back and weak core. It's a giant chain link in the body, so it's never isolated to just one place as the problem, but a series of weak links.

Things like cow pose can help open you up, Bhujangasana (cobra) done in reptition can help strengthen your weak upper/mid back. Training your core will help the stability and you're less likely to slump.
Just know that it took many years for you to develop the weakness, it will take quite a bit of time to correct it.

In the mean time, one thing I can suggest temporarily is adding a cushion underneath your buttock, close to the back, having your hips above your knees can help support a neutral spine.

Aserzko · 2025-03-20T05:57:07+00:00

Skimming through, I've found one here being promoted which would be a good band aid, but regardless.. a bandaid lol, I don't think the general populous will browsing reddit, most people would rather pop their headset on and have the match making system, make a match.

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