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Ashok Singh
Ashok Singh, or Ashokji, was Forrest's Kriya Yoga guru in the Panchanon Bhattacharya lineage; he died in June 2021. His teachings run through the channel: OM Japa in the chakras done into emotions all day, which he called the real Kriya; following bliss rather than energy; and resting the mind on the medulla.
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Ashokji's 3 Teachings - Guru Purnima
A Guru Purnima overview of the three teachings he passed on: seeking the bliss behind energy, OM Japa in the six chakras, and resting on the medulla.
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Interview with Sri Ashok Singh on Kriya Yoga and Maheshwari Dubeyji
An interview in which he explains Kriya as cleaning behavior stored in six spinal centers and tells how he came to study with Maheshwari Prasad Dubey.
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Remembering My Kriya Guru
A tribute recorded after his death that collects his sayings and counsel, from OM Japa as all-day Kriya Therapy to following bliss over energy.
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00:01“I want to talk a little bit about one of the essential teachings of my guru Ashokji.”07:48“He runs out of the house in his flip flops.”03:01“So the first thing that my guru Ashokji taught me was to use the body itself to locate the correct space in the body, and then sense from that place.”00:29“So I'm with my guru Ashokji, and he's saying to me over and over again, "Clean it out, clean it out.”05:13“My Guru Ashokji, he told me, I swear it was a million times, clean it out, clean it out, just get right, get right in there and clean it out, just clean it right out.”01:21“The program that was taught to me by Ashokji very, very, very practical.”01:15“My guru Ashokji, he said, Kriya Yoga is a bliss program, because when you feel bliss, it's very, very difficult to take your problems, to take the world, to take your life, to take other people too seriously.”03:19“And when I went to train with Ashokji, he told me use the medulla.”00:01“Today, I wanted to give you a little warning from my guru, Ashokji.”13:04“So Ashok emphasized this medulla pathway for realization that this is what the Kriya Yoga is really all about.”09:13“So I told Ashok this.”06:14“It's arisen automatically as I walk through life, and Ashokji's voice will ring through my ears forever.”00:01“Today, I'd like to talk about what is probably one of the most important principles that my guru Ashok Singh ever taught me.”06:04“My body was so hot, I felt like I was in a in a live flame, like I I had actually stepped into the fire, and I wrote to Ashok, and I think this was the only time I wrote him an email, and he immediately called me up, and he goes very simply, is it blissful?”04:27“He goes, it's not happiness, and he yelled at me.”12:42“And then we found out that Ashok Singh was in America, and I came to see him.”03:55“So I've been feeling energetic sensations for I don't know, I don't know, maybe 20 years, and so at a certain point, and especially with my training with Ashokji, he taught me to focus on other things, not to fixate on the energy.”02:08“When Ashok taught me to find the chakras, he said, "Don't point," because I said, "Well, are you talking about the heart?"”07:51“I wrote to Ashok.”02:00“And then I met Ashok Singh, and I had heard over and over again that the Panchanon Bhattacharyaji lineage had kept the Kriya very, very pure.”11:31“I'm concentrating, and Ashokji told me concentrate on the origin.”02:20“So that's what Ashokji taught me, and I thought that was so brilliant.”00:48“My guru, Ashokji, used to read my mind regularly, and so let's get into it.”01:00“I asked my guru Ashokji once.”08:54“I I remember my guru Ashokji was a brilliant.”01:15“And all of this has to do with a story about Ashokji, my guru, and bliss, and how he yelled at me.”00:58“And so finding the original technique, studying with Sri Ashok Singh was a real blessing.”15:19“And Ashokji, I loved him to death, and he was fantastic in so many moments, but he was not perfect, and I didn't expect him to be perfect.”16:21“He said, if you're still here, if you are still interested, if your heart is still into your practice, go ahead and do another twelve Kriya.”00:15“And so, I thought I would talk about my guru, Ashok Singh.”00:01“Last Monday, my teacher, my guru Ashok Singh passed away in the night, June twenty eighth, twenty twenty one.”00:11“This is a concept that was given to me by my teacher Ashok Singh, and this video is dedicated to him.”00:02“This is the third interview in my first series talking with Sri Ashok Singh”00:01“I'm here again with Sri Ashok Singh, and I wanted to do an interview.”00:02“Today, it's my distinct pleasure and honor to introduce you to Sri Ashok Singh, my Kriya Yoga Guru.”08:01“When I started training with Ashokji, he told me, "Point yourself towards bliss in Kriya Yoga.”06:45“So I was doing all this Om Japa as directed by my guru Ashokji.”03:16“But you can also get lost in it, and that's why my guru Ashokji was never that impressed by energetic sensations, energetic experiences.”01:31“And now we're heading ourselves towards bliss, like my guru told me, Ashokji, and we're setting our intention.”05:18“Ashokji told me, look, the spiritual eye is for powers, and the medulla is for the expansion of consciousness.”13:05“Ashokji, my guru, he said, look, when you're in your day and something comes up, om into it.”11:48“I wrote to Ashok.”00:01“My guru, Ashokji, he would tell me all the time, "Point yourself towards bliss."”06:23“Those are the words of my Guru Ashokji, and they echo in my heart forever.”11:50“My Guru Ashokji he said again and again, "Keep directing yourself towards bliss.”04:35“Like my guru Ashokji told me, lodge yourself with the Kriya, do whichever Kriya lodges you the most powerfully into the medulla.”14:19“You're building a castle in the sky of visualization, and it can be very pretty, and some of that visualization may translate to a feeling, but you're missing out on the pure power of just being in the place you're supposed to be to clean, and that's the magic of what Ashokji taught me with the Kriya Yoga and his emphasis on you've got to actually feel it, and this is exactly how you communicate with your body all of the time.”11:36“From the first day that I met Ashokji, he told me my purpose is to get you into the medulla when you have a roll-up of consciousness into the brain, into the deep brain, and you can Google God.”01:08“So I've mentioned before this essential teaching from Ashokji, my guru.”07:06“And this is how my Guru Ashokji, this is how he taught me to feel bliss.”18:04“It's all about coming back, coming back to the heart, coming back to joy, coming back to love, coming back to compassion, to peace, to equanimity, to tranquility, to bliss, and this is why, my guru Ashokji, he always told me, point yourself towards bliss.”05:57“You see, the first day that I met Ashok, he told me my only job is to get you to the medulla where you can Google God.”05:54“So I'm going to show you the Mahamudra that Ashokji taught me.”05:49“And so my guru, Ashokji, he told me, "Do whichever kriya lodges you the most powerfully into the medulla."”12:24“My guru Ashokji, he said, this front of the body, this is the doorway of the chakra, and you want to get back to the spine.”07:50“We're trying to balance all of that, and of course I didn't have the teaching that Ashokji gave me.”14:17“My Guru Ashokji, he said that's the real Kriya.”13:17“There are some yogis that will feel it's as if there are tiny little levels above the medulla all the way to the crown, and in fact, my guru, Ashokji, mentioned this.”15:01“Ashokji told me.”02:13“Then I studied with my guru Ashokji.”09:05“Ashokji told me, go up into the medulla, lodge yourself powerfully into the medulla.”11:44“Ashokji told me a million times, clean, clean, clean it out.”00:58“And when my guru Ashokji taught me this, he said, "Make sure the outbreath is just a little bit longer.”01:36“So I went to Ashok.”14:26“My my guru, Ashok, told me all the time, just get in there and clean it out, just clean it right out, over and over again.”01:44“And that was true for Ashokji.”03:19“There's a much, much better way, and it comes from the philosophy of my Guru Ashokji.”10:30“I I can't tell you how many times Ashok said to me, "Clean it out, clean it out.”04:27“So Ashok, my guru, he said to me, you know, if you're walking around and you have a negative emotion, you can sense that feeling, right?”09:52“My Guru, Ashokji told me, the real Kriya Yoga is the one that you practice all day.”00:20“This was a technique that was shared with me from a very dear friend, a very deep yogi, and and it follows beautifully the principles that were taught to me by my guru Ashok Singh.”19:56“So I wrote that to my guru, Ashokji, and I said, "I'm up in my head, and it's just a box.”19:57“And my guru Ashokji was very, very clear on this.”21:52“And I I wrote to my guru, Ashokji.”13:53“Ashokji told me you have to create this relationship with the chakra, and when you do that, you are creating a biofeedback loop between you and the chakra.”06:16“So Ashokji told me how to do this.”03:28“So, my guru Ashokji would tell me, "Go up to the medulla."”21:43“Ashok told me.”03:03“When I spoke with Ashokji, he gave me Kriya, and he said, "Let me know when you meet yourself.”13:10“And my guru Ashokji, he told me this is the real Kriya Yoga.”09:35“It's not that you're you know enlightened, of course not, but it's an awakening inside of you of feeling energy, being able to feel energy, and then of course my teacher taught me Ashokji.”07:38“Ashok, my teacher, told me that the reaction from the first chakra is, hey, who is that knocking at my door?”19:46“So my my teacher Ashok Singh, he said, when you go out in the world and something happens and you feel a negative emotion, don't don't just you know don't waste yourself.”13:26“Oh, I was talking about Ashokji, and I I said, you know, he kept pointing me towards bliss, and so my student complained.”04:19“Well, within my lineage, Ashok Singh called this place where you're sitting at the feet of the internal guru.”02:23“And it confirmed everything which I had been told through the Panchanon lineage through Ashok Singh.”