Kenneth Toy Ordained Kriya Yoga Swami

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Main Areas: Transformational Lifestyle Program - Kriya Yoga is a complete holistic health management system to initiate a process that unfolds in three phase leading to Total Consciousness.
Career Focus: Metaphysical Consulting and Training to actualize physiological, psychological and spiritual development.
Affiliation: Institute For Personal Development, Inc. "Kriya Yoga Ashram"

Kenneth Toy (Swami Jayananda) is the founder of Institute for Personal Development, Inc. he is an independent scholar who earned the title of Swami in the Kriya Yoga lineage and is also a Certified Professional Astrologer. He has been living, practicing and teaching the mystical sciences for over 30 years. He worked for 20 years in the building trades while learning the mystical sciences. He is a Steamfitter of local 638 in NYC and a certified welder. He says "fusion of metal and fusion of consciousness are identical. Just as the atom imitates the solar system, the small and the simple explains the large and the complex." He developed the Transformational Lifestyle Program on the subways of NYC where all of his senses were violated. He says "during those years in NY I figured out the mystery of life and applied the theory. I empowered myself to shape my inner state of being to fit the demands of my external environment. Self control and self-mastery is the foundation of this program and Kriya Yoga."

As a Kriya Yoga Swami, he took a vow to truth and has the responsibility to develop his own system for attaining enlightenment-- The Temple of Kriya Yoga is not responsible for the information that you get here. He is a firm believer in knowing and doing-- walking the talk. Kenneth has deep appreciation to his teacher Goswami Kriyananda who said "find a need and fill that need".

Other Programs & Highlights

"The eight essential stages of Kriya Yoga" are a complete holistic health management system that translate into a path of action, a path of knowledge, and a path of devotion. These lifestyle strategies are designed to initiate a process in physiological, psychological/spiritual development that unfolds in three phases: prepersonal or unconscious awareness, personal or self-conscious awareness and transpersonal or super-conscious awareness. Total Consciousness is the goal of Yoga." Kenneth Toy (Swami Jayananda)

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Kenneth Toy

Definitions:

Happiness: to understand happiness just look at an infant child at its mother’s bosom there isn’t anything we can do to persuade the child to leave that bosom. What we have done is weaned ourselves of that bosom and started to assign that same feeling to other substances, circumstances and situations.

Prana is the life force and can also be called Chi and / or the grace of God. There is a more subtle force than air that supports life and it follows the path of thought. Thought is our number one life sustaining force and Prana is the most important resource because it is the one we need the most. We can live weeks without food, days without water, minutes without air but we can’t live a millisecond without Prana.

We begin with skillful use of thought. Thinking right in Kriya Yoga is knowing the difference between a need and a want and then knowing your needs in their order of importance. When you read scripture and it doesn’t matter which one the bible, the Koran, the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutras they all tell us. To be successful in life put “God” first—where the breakdown happens here is what is God? And what does it look like when God is first? In this model “God” is our number one need. The force right now that is supporting life and when it is first it is associated with your peak experience feeling (happiness). The real question is why aren’t we celebrating our next breath? The reason is we come in with what was called the “original sin” our bodies look for food, mother and approval for validation. We have to separate from “mother” the outside world (duality) and reconnect to “father” (Spirit—the unified state). A big obstacle to the connection is this attachment to the realms of matter and mind. In order to separate from them we must purify the mind body complex of the “sin” and prepare it for the invocation of a new symbol for validation.

The practice of Kriya Yoga enables one to reformat the reward circuits in the brain with breath as a new symbol of validation which reconnects the individual with a more reliable resource and the unified state. Humanity is designed for peace, love, happiness and goodness. A big part of this design is Spirit or God itself. Spirit is what makes all these qualities possible. People have problems when they are separate from Spirit or God. Kriya Yoga is a way to get connected to the one true God-- so you can enjoy peace, love happiness and goodness!
As CS Lewis says in Mere Christianity “What man, in his natural condition, has not got, is Spiritual life—the higher and different sort of life that exists in God. We use the same word life for both: but if you thought that both must therefore be the same sort of thing, that would be like thinking that the “greatness” of space and the “greatness” of God were the same sort of greatness. In reality, the difference between Biological life and Spiritual life is so important that I am going to give them two distinct names. The Biological sort which comes to us through Nature, and which (like everything else in Nature) is always tending to run down and decay so that it can only be kept up by incessant subsidies from Nature in the form of air, water, food, etc. , is Bios. The Spiritual life, which is in God from all eternity, and which made the whole natural universe, is Zoe.”

Humans have to be taught how to become Spiritual (humans in the adult state “Kings and Queens”). The Kriya Yoga at IPD educates seekers in the art of getting out of the Bios and into the Zoe. Experience apotheosis! Get the light in your soul and find solutions to all the common problems we are struggling with collectively in America.