KRISHNA AND KRIYA YOGA, THE REAL "FIRE RITE" Referring to the sure and methodical efficacy of yoga, KRISHNA praises the technological yogi in the following words: “The yogi is greater than body-disciplining ascetics, greater even than the followers of the path of wisdom (Jnana Yoga), or of the path of action (Karma Yoga); be thou, O disciple Arjuna, a yogi!” ...... KRIYA YOGA is the real “fire rite” oft extolled in the Gita. The yogi casts his human longings into a monotheistic bonfire consecrated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine. The Ultimate Flame receives the sacrifice of all human madness, and man is pure of dross. His metaphorical bones stripped of all desirous flesh, his karmic skeleton bleached by the antiseptic sun of wisdom, inoffensive before man and Maker, he is clean at last. …. Continued. . . Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, “The Science of Kriya Yoga” #kriyayoga #yogavatar #krishna #yogananda #kriyayogaguru https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg90fF9heIK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=