Lahiri Kriya Yoga

Kriya yoga is a meditation technique of controlling energy through pranayama and meditation, which speeds up the spiritual process of the aspirant. In 1861, the practice of Kriya yoga was revived by Mahavatar Babaji and passed through his disciple, Lahiri Mahasaya. Through Lahiri Mahasaya, the practice spread throughout India.

Kriya deconditions and sets the seeker free from the past karma. It transforms fundamentally the gross ego-centre of the seeker into a subtle individual uniqueness which also includes universality. It brings harmony with the wholeness of life by piercing through the ignorance of the ways of self. It is a unique combination of Hatha-Raja-Laya Yoga. It settles the seeker in his natural state in which his body receives instructions only from glands and Chakras. Thought does not interfere as interloper to create psychosomatic problems and pursuits. Kriya Yoga does not tell stories, does not indulge in miracle mongering to keep the seekers amused in poor and paralyzing consolations. Organisations promoting surmises and fictions are stragglers from the path of truth. Kriya Yoga encourages seekers to investigate if experiencer and the experienced can become one unitary movement without any dichotomy whatsoever.

Kriya Yoga in the dynastic lineage stream has continued in the age-old Rishi-tradition of India from Shyamacharan Lahiri Mahasahay to his son Tinkaudi Lahiri who initiated his son Satyacharan Lahiri who in turn initiated his son Shibendu Lahiri. The kriya yoga teaching is available in the purest form in this lineage as no changes have been made to the kriyas by any of the yogis in the stream. There was no organization at the time of Shyamacharan Lahiri Mahashaya and there is none even now, in the fourth generation of Shibendu Lahiri: veracity cannot be organized, only vanity and vested interests are organized.

The dynastic lineage Initiation is not just information, but a transformation indeed. Despite all tall claims by others, no one is perhaps as authorized as Shibendu Lahiri (born 1939), the great grandson of famous house holder Yogi Lahiri Mahashay (1828-1895), to spread theauthentic teachings and techniques of Kriya Yoga in the world today. Yet he says in utter humility that wise wields no authority and those in authority are not wise! Organisations assert authority, but authenticity may be lacking. Mobilisation may create a mafia, but the most sacred may remain untouched. Cultism has no place in matters deeply spiritual.

Lahiri Mahasay (Full Name: Shyama Charan Lahiri) became known to the truth seekers all over the world through Paramahamsa Yogananda's famous book "Autobiography of a Yogi", which has been translated in many languages. Shibendu has the distinction of receiving the original Kriya process in the age-old Rishi-tradition of India, that is, from father to son - generation after generation. Thus, the process here passed, through knowledge and genes. Shibendu who was initiated in 1960 by his father Late Satya Charan Lahiri at the family shrine "Satyalok" D 22/3, Chousatti Ghat, Varanasi - 221 001 (India).