Karna as a kriya yogi

Karna as a kriya yogi

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In bhagwad gita in Kriya perspective, there is a beautiful depiction of Arjuna and Krishna as Kriya yogi.

What is your perspective on karna as Kriya yogi.

Is he a Kriya yogi? At least he looks like one to me?

His compassion, charity, extraordinary warrior, being insulted throughout his life as charioteer son and

How he was killed in a conspired way,

These have had a mental impact on me (sympathy) and imbibed certain qualities of Karna.

Please shed some wisdom on the Kriya yogi side of Karna. And what to take and what not to take from him.

Mi~Beloved’s Response

This would depend on the definition of kriya yoga. There are many such definitions which vary from sect to sect and from teacher to teacher. In terms of the yogas given in the Bhagavad Gita, Karna is disqualified because he was hostile to the decisions made by the central person in the Universal Form, Krishna.

It does not matter what yoga is practiced or which part of the practice one masters, if one is hostile to and disagrees with the decisions and opinions of that central person, one cannot be successful in spiritual accomplishments in real terms.

Karna personally disagreed with Krishna in more than one instance. He agreed with the humiliation of Draupadi. He encouraged Duryodhana to wage war with the Pandavas. He deliberately positioned himself to help Duryodhana against the Pandavas, as a rival of Arjuna. He tricked Parashurama into teaching him mystic yoga for military application. He refused to pardon his biological mother, Kunti, for her vicious act of putting his baby form in a basket and floating it down a river.

At the end of the life of a body, anyone one, a yogi, a bad yogi, a non-yogi, who lived in opposition to the central person in the universal Form, will find the fortune is in question because of the blow-back from Krishna.

Hostility and opposition, disagreement with the central person for whatever reason serves for the undoing of a limited self. There are many people whom we meet from day to day. Most of them are hostile to the central person, even many of those who request to be taught kriya yoga. This is to be regretted.

Karna’s problem was his retained resentment towards fate which happened in the form of his mother becoming pregnant by the sun deity and her hostile act to avoid shame by putting his baby body in a basket in a river. He actually worshipped the deity to get military skill and weapons. How such a person can be rated as a kriya yogi is mysterious to me. However, accepting your view that he was, his resentment which he retained all the way through his life, is difficult to explain, as to why his kriya practice did not dissolve those hard feelings.

It goes to show that in the long terms, we are individual entities, so much so that we assert that with specific resentments to somebody, such that even if God begs us to release the hard feelings, we will refuse to do so. The biggest number which is divided by a zero, equals zero. And perhaps the greatest skill in the military application of yoga disqualifies one ultimately for success in kriya