Sri Krishna talks of Kriya Yoga in the Mahavatar Babaji reintroduced Kriya Yoga
Bhagavad Gita and passed the technique to Lahiri Mahasaya
Lahiri Mahasaya (1828-1895) taught Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855-1936) disciple of
Kriya Yoga to many of his disciples. Lahiri Mahasaya and Guru of Paramahansa
Yogananda
Tinkori Lahiri - son of Lahiri Mahasaya Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 1952)
learned Kriya from his father. Disciple of Sri Yukteswar. Brought Kriya Yoga
to the west in 1920
Satyacharan Lahiri - son of Tinkori Mrs. Mishra with Roy Eugene Davis.
and grandson of Lahiri mahasaya. Roy is a direct disciple of Paramahansa
He in turn learned Kriya from his father. Yogananda.
Shibendu Lahiri is the son of Satyacharan Mrs. Mishra at the home
and great grandson of Lahiri Mahasaya. of Shibendu Lahiri in Banaras.
He lives and teaches Kriya from his home in
Banaras, India.
Mrs Mishra with Guruji Swami Shree Yogi Satyam at the Kriya Yoga Institute India
Kriya Yoga
"The kriya Yoga that I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century," Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya, "is a revival of the same science that Krishna gave milleniums ago to Arjuna; and that was later known to Patanjali and Christ, and to St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples."
- Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi)
"Remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will have to leave this world, so make the acqaintance of God now. It is only because of delusion that you perceive yourself as a physical body. Meditate unceasingly to realize your real, divine nature."
- Lahiri Mahasaya
"Austerity, study of sacred texts and application of what is learned, and surrender to God is kriya yoga.
Kriya yoga is practiced to resist, weaken, and remove all physical and mental obstacles to God-realization."
- Patanjali's yoga sutras 2:1,2
"Devotees who (clearly) comprehend the eternal nature of the supreme Self renounce all attachments. Meditating with one-pointed concentration, they dissolve their awareness in God."
- Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri
"Teachers of this kriya yoga path proclaim that it is possible, by wholesome living, the systematic development of intellectual and intuitive powers, proficient meditation practice, and the redemptive actions of grace, to experience rapid spiritual growth that culminates in illumination of consciousness in a few years."
- Roy Eugene Davis
"The main purpose of Kriya Yoga is to be in the natural state ("Sahajavastha" of Vedanta, "Swarupe Avasthanam" of Patanjali, "Swadharma" of Gita and "Parabastha" of Lahiri Mahashay). Yoga means integration between mind and life, between mundane and the most sacred, between the divine imminent and the divine transcendent, between the holy and the humdrum, between the separative consciousness generated by the constant churning of thought and an unitive awareness in which stimulus and response become one unitary movement."