Authentic Kriya Yoga Techniques of Sathguru Kriya Babaji
For Health, Inner Peace, and Self-Transformation
The Lineage
Mahavatar Babaji, the Master
Born in year 203 A.D, Sathguru Kriya Babaji Nagaraj, also known as Mahavatar Babaji, has been the living source and fountainhead of the very powerful system of yoga - "Kriya Yoga" - revived by him. Babaji has been guiding his disciples under different lineages so that they spread his teachings throughout the world.
As part of the current lineage, which he founded in 1952 through two disciples, V.T.Neelakantan and Yogi S.A.A.Ramaiah, Babaji has synthesized classical yoga of Patanjali, the tantric practices and teachings of the 18 Tamil Yoga Siddhas to create an integral yoga to transform the aspirant in all five planes of human existence (physical, vital, mental, intellectual and spiritual). This includes a five-fold yogic path of asanas, pranayama, meditation, mantras and bhakti with a comprehensive set of 144 Kriyas, practical yogic techniques taught in three progressive initiations. These include the most potential technique of "Kriya Kundalini Pranayama" in the first initiation and Samadhi Kriyas in the third initiation. They are designed by Babaji specifically for the householders of this modern age.
Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah, disciple of Babaji
Born into a rich Chettiar family in Chettinad, Tamil Nadu, colonial India in 1923, Yogiar S.A.A. Ramaiah graduated from Madras University with a B.S. major in geology, and a minor in Tamil literature. On the eve of his departure for post-graduate studies in geology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA he contracted bone tuberculosis and endured six years of convalescence suspended in a plaster body cast, as prescribed by English specialists. After being healed by Babaji in 1952 he devoted his life to Babaji’s mission. He was initiated into Kriya Yoga by merciful Babaji himself in his ashram near Satopanth Tal in Badrinath. Babaji taught him the system of 144 kriyas. Yogiar did tapas and completed multiple assignments, including the collection and preservation of more than a thousand palm leaf manuscripts written by the 18 Tamil Siddhas including Agastyar Muni and Boganathar, who were Babaji's Gurus.
Yogiar had spread the teachings of Babaji to different parts of the world. Among several assignments given by Babaji, establishment of a yoga therapy college was also an important milestone after studying physiotherapy and yoga therapy to heal the suffering using yogic techniques. I remember my teacher Marshall Govindan Satchidananda Ji recalling many times the pure love his Guru demonstrated towards people though he was known to be a very strict and ego-crushing typical Spiritual Guru. Yogiar was one of the yogis in the recent times who made a conscious exit.
Marshall Govindan Satchidananda, my Teacher
From 1970 to 1989, after 18 years of an intense Kriya Yoga Sadhana, 8 hours a day on average under the supervision of his Guru, Yogiar S.A.A. Ramaiah (the direct disciple of Babaji), Marshall Govindan Satchidananda Ji attained "Self-Realization". His Spiritual name Govindan, which is the name of attracting avatar of Lord Vishnu, was given to him in 1974 on Mt. Shasta, California by Babaji himself (through Yogiar) announcing that he would attract and initiate many aspirants of Kriya Yoga across the world in future.
As foretold by Yogiar, more than ten years earlier, Babaji asked him to start the Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas lay order of initiating teachers in 1997 to spread his Kriya movement across the world. Since then, Satchidananda Ji has initiated tens of thousands of seekers into Kriya Yoga. He has completed many projects entrusted to him by Babaji and Yogiar as part of this journey. While his demanding journey with Yogiar is certainly inspiring for seekers, Satchidananda has been very generous in giving access to sacred Kriya Techniques considering the ever-growing challenges of the householders' modern lifestyle as Babaji stated that his Kriya Yoga of this lineage is meant for householders, not renunciates. In 1999, Babaji gave his blessings on the Order and his divine darshan twice to him in Satopanth Tal.
Benefits of Kriya Yoga
With Relaxation & Rejuvenation as objective, Kriya Hatha Yoga (18 asanas) is uniquely designed by Babaji to be practiced in pairs & stages leads to a better health (scientifically proven), nourishes the body-mind system deeply, prevents common diseases like Diabetes
Physical Health
Following benefits can be realized when Kriyas are sincerely and regularly practiced exactly the way they are taught:
Various Breathing & Meditation Kriyas yield many benefits like stimulating para-sympathetic nervous system for stress-free life, inner peace, purification of vital body (seat of emotions) & subconscious, therapeutic effects, more pranic energy etc.,
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing
With refinement of intellectual body through various kriyas, the intellect is sharpened deepening the capacity of discernment with clarity of thought helping in wiser life decisions, having efficiency at the core of life, better articulation, enhanced problem-solving etc.,
Power of Wisdom
Unfolding Better Self
Self-confidence, better sleep, conscious living being calm and composed, fulfilling family & work responsibilities effectively, conduct personal, social and work relations better, increased awareness of thoughts and emotions, mental hygiene etc.,
Self-Realization
All 18 yoga postures move the energy towards upper chakras; they cleanse and clear the blockages in energy channels to enable it
Kriya Kundalini Pranayama, the most potential kriya, prepares for the gradual and safe rise of "Kundalini Shakthi" - our potential power and consciousness; it is said that each breath of this kriya contributes unimaginably to one's spiritual growth
Dhyana Kriyas enables the seeker to realize all levels of consciousness by awakening the inner dormant faculties. They also include various Samadhi kriyas that lead to breathless state of communion with our omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent super intelligence
Various Bija and other mantras form the vehicles of consciousness to attune to the individual self to the Universal Self
The five-fold kriya yoga path of Babaji integrates the development of seeker in a true sense by not leaving any of five bodies unorphaned
Teaches how to integrate yoga into daily life to experience the joy of expanding consciousness incessantly throughout
It would be incomplete without the mention of something which is at the core of everything - "kriya", the action with awareness; it serves at the antidote to karma and helps seeker to re-script his/her own destiny while making the practice of all techniques a conscious practice
While Siddha Patanjali blessed the world with classical yoga, the Kriya Yoga of Babaji gives all practical techniques to implement
Self-Realization follows a sincere, regular and intense practice to let the wave (individual self) merge back into ocean (Universal Self)
Most transformative course a beginner can have to seek true insight for self study & reflect.
Lineage Teachings & Resources
Satchidananda Ji & Acharyas of Order initiate students as Kriyabans into different levels
Regular publication of Journals from Satchidananda Ji, constant source of wisdom
Acharyas lead kriyabans on pilgrimage for sadhana & holy places darshans for grace
300-hr Kriya Hatha Yoga Teacher Training certified by International Yoga Federation
Priceless wisdom required all through the spiritual journey for seekers as beacons of light
Priceless wisdom required all through the spiritual journey for seekers as beacons of light
Experience holy places of an ancient spiritual culture and do Sadhana in sacred sites
Some of the testimonials where kriyabans and students have shared their experiences
Acharyas & Certified Teachers across the globe teach Kriya Hatha Yoga to the aspirants
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About me
Sreedhar is an Acharya in the "Order of Acharyas" in this lineage and has been initiating the aspirants into Kriya Yoga from year 2026. As a certified teacher in Babaji's Kriya Hatha Yoga, he has been teaching Kriya Hatha Yoga for past 2.5 years. He has been practicing Kriya Yoga for more than a decade. Further, he is mere an instrument in the hands of Sathguru Kriya Babaji Nagaraj, who works through him to teach the aspirants. Together, the Kriya Yoga Pledge and this profound 1952 quote dictated by Babaji—taken from The Voice of Babaji, a Trilogy on Kriya Yoga —lie at the very core of his principles, practice, and journey, driving him forward under the guidance of Satchidananda Ji:
"Mergence in the Master is not becoming nothing
But being a perfect instrument of the Master"
-"The Voice of Babaji, a Trilogy on Kriya Yoga"