{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.kriy","code":"thing-q1218265","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1218265/","name":"Kriyā","alternateNames":["Shatkarma","basti"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.ACT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A kriyā is a yoga technique identified within a particular yogic teaching or tradition, which may involve movement, breathing, meditation or cleansing and whose form and attributed purpose depend on that context; this sense excludes the broader Sanskrit meaning of action and non-yogic ritual uses.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise a contextually identified kriyā, distinguish its prescribed performance from claims about its effects, and determine how it may be documented, compared or practised.","scope":{"in":["The meaning of kriyā in an identified text, tradition or teaching context","Criteria by which a prescribed act or practice qualifies as a kriyā","Practice components, sequencing and tradition-specific completion conditions","Relationships between practice prescriptions, teaching variants and actual performances","Attributed purposes, reported experiences and evidence for claimed effects","Practice-specific requirements for instruction, participation and disclosure"],"out":["The complete doctrines, institutions and histories of Kriyā Yoga schools","Yoga as a whole and exhaustive models of āsana, prāṇāyāma or meditation","Karma as a comprehensive theory of action and consequence","Full taxonomies of ritual systems and Buddhist tantra classes","Sanskrit grammar and verb semantics beyond disambiguating this entry","Medical diagnosis or treatment protocols for conditions allegedly affected by a practice"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["A label alone is insufficient: identify who calls the act kriyā and what that usage includes.","Distinguish the general term from a named Kriyā Yoga system; membership in a system requires contextual evidence.","Distinguish a repeatable practice prescription from one occasion of performing it, including incomplete or modified performances.","A breathing exercise, posture or cleansing procedure qualifies here only when its source identifies the relevant relationship to kriyā.","Completion of prescribed actions and attainment of a claimed spiritual or bodily effect require separate judgments."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"meaning-and-boundaries","name":"Meaning and boundaries","description":"Resolve what Kriyā denotes in this registry entry and in each attributed use.","layers":[{"id":"lexical-and-contextual-sense","name":"Lexical and contextual sense","description":"Separate the word's range of meanings from a particular technical application.","findings":[{"id":"source-qualified-meaning","name":"Source-qualified meaning","description":"Record the passage and context supporting each proposed sense; the range of meanings documented in [Kriya, Kriyā definitions](https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/kriya) makes registry disambiguation necessary.","questions":[{"text":"Does the registry intend action broadly, a ritual act, a yogic practice or another technical sense?","id":"source-qualified-meaning-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which original registry source or textual passage establishes that intended sense?","id":"source-qualified-meaning-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"compound-and-neighbour-boundaries","name":"Compound and neighbour boundaries","description":"Determine when related names identify a narrower practice or a different concept.","findings":[{"id":"kriya-versus-named-system","name":"Kriyā versus a named system","description":"Require an explicit relationship before equating Kriyā with Kriyā Yoga, a named breathing programme, a cleansing practice or a tantra classification.","questions":[{"text":"What does the narrower name add to the meaning of kriyā in this source?","id":"kriya-versus-named-system-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Does an existing registry or world-model publication already own that concept?","id":"kriya-versus-named-system-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"prescription-and-performance","name":"Prescription and performance","description":"Describe what constitutes the kriyā and what counts as carrying it out.","layers":[{"id":"constitutive-sequence","name":"Constitutive sequence","description":"Identify required components and their ordering without supplying unsupported instructions.","findings":[{"id":"essential-and-variable-components","name":"Essential and variable components","description":"Distinguish identity-defining acts from optional preparation, accompanying observances and permitted variations.","questions":[{"text":"Which bodily, respiratory, verbal, attentional or material components does this source require?","id":"essential-and-variable-components-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which omissions or substitutions make the performance a different practice?","id":"essential-and-variable-components-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"instance-and-completion","name":"Instance and completion","description":"Record an occurrence against the relevant prescription.","findings":[{"id":"performance-completion-criteria","name":"Performance completion criteria","description":"Treat prescribed completion, interrupted execution and claimed attainment as distinct records.","questions":[{"text":"What observable sequence, duration or repetition count marks completion in this version?","id":"performance-completion-criteria-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"How should an interrupted or adapted performance be recorded under that prescription?","id":"performance-completion-criteria-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"transmission-and-variation","name":"Transmission and variation","description":"Track how a kriyā is attributed, taught and differentiated across sources.","layers":[{"id":"text-and-teacher-attribution","name":"Text and teacher attribution","description":"Separate documented instruction from claims about origin and lineage.","findings":[{"id":"attestation-versus-lineage-claim","name":"Attestation versus lineage claim","description":"Record what a source actually attests and who asserts a transmission history.","questions":[{"text":"Which dated text, recording or teaching document describes this particular kriyā?","id":"attestation-versus-lineage-claim-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which links in its claimed transmission are documented, and which remain attributed tradition?","id":"attestation-versus-lineage-claim-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"version-comparison","name":"Version comparison","description":"Compare prescriptions without assuming that one version settles all others.","findings":[{"id":"equivalence-and-disagreement","name":"Equivalence and disagreement","description":"Locate disagreements in required actions, purposes, eligibility or claimed authority.","questions":[{"text":"Which teachers or texts consider these variants equivalent, and on what grounds?","id":"equivalence-and-disagreement-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which differences must remain visible when an agent compares or summarises them?","id":"equivalence-and-disagreement-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"purpose-experience-and-evidence","name":"Purpose, experience and evidence","description":"Separate intended transformations from observed events and explanations of those events.","layers":[{"id":"tradition-defined-purpose","name":"Tradition-defined purpose","description":"Record the intended result in the vocabulary of its source.","findings":[{"id":"attributed-aim-and-mechanism","name":"Attributed aim and mechanism","description":"Preserve claims about purification, discipline, devotion or liberation as attributed explanations where sources actually make them.","questions":[{"text":"What result does this source say the kriyā is intended to produce?","id":"attributed-aim-and-mechanism-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Whose account explains how the practice produces that result?","id":"attributed-aim-and-mechanism-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"outcome-operationalisation","name":"Outcome operationalisation","description":"Identify what can be reported or measured without substituting a proxy for the whole claimed result.","findings":[{"id":"experience-and-assessed-effect","name":"Experience and assessed effect","description":"Bind each outcome to the actual practice version, reporting method and observation period.","questions":[{"text":"What was observed or reported, by whom, and how long after which performance?","id":"experience-and-assessed-effect-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Does the evidence concern this kriyā specifically or a larger programme containing other practices?","id":"experience-and-assessed-effect-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"instruction-and-participation","name":"Instruction and participation","description":"Determine the conditions under which an agent may explain or support an identified practice.","layers":[{"id":"teaching-access","name":"Teaching access","description":"Record stated preparation, initiation and disclosure conditions without generalising across traditions.","findings":[{"id":"source-specific-prerequisites","name":"Source-specific prerequisites","description":"For example, [Self-Realization Fellowship's techniques page](https://yogananda.org/kriya-yoga-path-of-meditation-techniques) describes preliminary study and practice before receiving its Kriya Yoga technique; such requirements belong to the identified teaching context.","questions":[{"text":"What preparation or initiation does this teaching authority require for this kriyā?","id":"source-specific-prerequisites-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"Which details are publicly taught, and which are explicitly reserved for instructed participants?","id":"source-specific-prerequisites-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"performance-support-limits","name":"Performance support limits","description":"Identify practice-specific guidance needed before supporting execution or adaptation.","findings":[{"id":"adaptation-and-stopping-guidance","name":"Adaptation and stopping guidance","description":"Record sourced supervision, adaptation and stopping conditions for the actual technique rather than inferring them from the word kriyā.","questions":[{"text":"What guidance governs supervision, modification or stopping this particular practice?","id":"adaptation-and-stopping-guidance-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"When do missing instructions or uncertain practice identity require referral to a qualified instructor?","id":"adaptation-and-stopping-guidance-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Kriyā this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-kinds","name":"Kinds and varieties","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Kriyā this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-kinds-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-identifiers","name":"Identifiers and schemes","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Kriyā this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-identifiers-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Kriyā this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Kriyā this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Kriyā this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Kriyā this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain kriyā as a yoga technique using attributed yogic texts and teaching sources.","Distinguish yoga 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healthcare.","Coercive instruction or pressure to continue despite distress can undermine consent and well-being."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":[]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Kriya is encountered in yoga instruction, religious practice and textual study, with its meaning depending on the tradition and source.","The term can refer to practices involving movement, breath, attention or cleansing, so documentation requires identifying the particular practice.","Practitioners may use a kriya for spiritual discipline or preparation for other practices, while claims about health effects require separate evidence."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q1218265: Kriyā","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1218265","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Kriyā","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriy%C4%81","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Which original registry record establishes the intended sense of Kriyā for vr.tr.kriy?","Should the entry own the broad action concept or specifically the yogic practice sense, and what evidence supports that boundary?","Which related concepts already have authoritative world models or registry entries that this model must link to?","Which traditions and primary texts must be represented to capture substantive disagreement without treating every homonymous usage as the same concept?","Which practice-specific outcome claims have evidence that separates the kriyā itself from accompanying instruction, observances and other techniques?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q1218265/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 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standard, law or official classification applies across the diverse yoga techniques called kriya.","interaction.recognition":"Kriya denotes a context-dependent practice whose identity cannot be established from visible movements alone."},"score":1.0}}