Yogacharya Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani's Keynote Presentation on "Kriya Yoga as therapeutic tool to manage Klesha induced stress" during the National Conference on “Yoga in Health Promotion - The Indian Lead” on 17.8.2019 organised at the Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education & Research by the Faculty of Yoga Sciences & Therapy

1. Kriya Yoga as a therapeutic
tool to manage
Klesha induced stress
Yogacharya
Dr. ANANDA BALAYOGI BHAVANANI
MBBS, ADY, PGDFH, PGDY, MD (Alt Med), FIAY, C-IAYT, DSc (Yoga)
Director and Professor Yoga Therapy
Centre for Yoga Education, Therapy and Research (CYTER),
Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Pondicherry. www.sbvu.ac.in/cyter

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3. SRI BALAJI VIDYAPEETH
(Deemed University Accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
Ranked 72 in NIRF 2018
Centre for Yoga Therapy, Education
and Research (CYTER)
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5. Kriya Yoga
• Tapah svadhyaya ishvara-pranidhana kriya-
yogah
– Kriya yoga consists of intensive self-discipline,
introspective self-analysis and surrender to the
Universal Will after doing one's best. 2.1
• Samadhi bhavana arthah klesha tanu
karanarthah cha
– [Kriya yoga enables one]to attenuate the
afflictions and attain higher states of absorption.
2.2

6. Pancha Klesha
• Avidya asmita raga
dvesha abhinivesha
pancha klesha
– These in born
psychological
afflictions are
ignorance, false
identity, attraction,
repulsion and
survival instinct. 2.3

7. • Avidya kshetram uttaresham prasupta tanu
vicchinna udaranam
– The afflictions exist in dormant, attenuated, manifest
or overpowering states depending on the basic field of
ignorance. 2.4
• Antiya ashuchi duhkha anatmasu nitya shuchi
sukha atman khyatih avidya
– Ignorance is confusing the impermanent to be
permanent, the impure to be pure, the painful to be
pleasurable and the non-self to be the true Self. 2.5
• Drig darshana shaktyoh ekatmata iva asmita
– The ego arises from a misidentification with the tool
of perception. 2.6

8. • Sukha anushayi ragah
– Attraction is caused by the craving for pleasure. 2.7
• Duhkha anushayi dvesha
– Repulsion occurs due to fear of painful suffering. 2.8
• Svarasavahi vidushah api tatha rudhah
abhiniveshah
– The desire to survive is self propelled and found in
even the most learned of humans. 2.9

9. How to rid the Kleshas
• Te pratipasava heyah sukshmah
– One must go against the very subtle source of
these afflictions [if they are to be eradicated]. 2.10
• Dhyana heyah tat vrittayah
– Fluctuations of the klesha can be silenced through
meditative awareness. 2.11
Kriya
Yoga
Tapa
Swadhayaya
Ishwara
pranidhana

10. They are the root of Karma
• Klesha-mula karma-ashaya drishta adrishta janma
vedaniyah
– With these afflictions as the root, karmic bondage
manifests through perceived and un-perceived
experiences of the present and future incarnations. 2.12
• Sati mule tat vipakah jatyayur bhogah
– As long as they remain, consequences produced are: birth,
life span, and experiences in that life. 2.13
• Te hlada paritapa phalah punya apunya hetutvat
– By the nature of merits or demerits (virtue or vice), these
may be experienced as either pleasure or pain. 2.14

11. Kriya Yoga
• Tapah svadhyaya ishvara pranidhana kriya-
yogah
– Kriya yoga consists of intensive self-discipline,
introspective self-analysis and surrender to the
Universal Will after doing one's best. 2.1
• Samadhi bhavanarthah klesha tanu
karanarthah cha
– [Kriya yoga enables one]to attenuate the afflictions
and attain higher states of absorption. 2.2

14. Yoga Marga Kriya Yoga Three domains
Karma Yoga Tapas Psychomotor domain
* To act; to do
Jnana Yoga Svadhyaya Cognitive domain
* To know; to think
Bhakti Yoga Ishvara
Pranidhana
Affective domain
* To feel; to will
Sharma BR. Role of Kriyayoga in Patanjala Yoga Sutra (PYS).Yoga
Mimamsa 1991; 30 (2 & 3): 84-92.

15. Mental
Agitations
Haphazard
Flow of
Prana
Unstable
Nadis
Hypo-cellular
activity
(Ajeeranatvam)
Hyper-cellular
activity
(Ateejeeranatvam)
Altered cellular
activity
(Kujeeranatvam)
VYAADHI
Physical
Ailments
Yogic understanding of Psychosomatic Disorders
AADHI
Manomaya
Kosha
Annamaya
Kosha
Pranamaya
Kosha

18. Kaivalyadhama model of practice
• 10 rounds of Anulom-vilom pranayama
– Conscious flow of air through nostrils
• 10 rounds of Omkhar recitation
– Low pitch, bell like sound with attenuation
• 10 rounds of Ghayatri Mantra

21. Gratitude
is the
highest
attitude.

22. SRI BALAJI VIDYAPEETH
(Deemed University Accredited with
“A” Grade by NAAC and Ranked 72 in NIRF 2018 )
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