Lineage of Masters
In this tradition, Kriya Yoga has been transmitted through a living lineage of realized masters. Each of them preserved its essence while making it accessible to the people of their own time. Our aim is not to compare or evaluate other branches of Kriya Yoga, but to faithfully present the lineage from which our practice and its manner of transmission descend.
Click on any master to open their biography. The order follows the tradition’s official sources; it is not a simple straight line of “one after another” — some masters were connected by a shared teacher and a shared period.
Mahavatar Babaji Maharaj
According to tradition, an immortal master
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Shri Lahiri Mahashaya
1828–1895
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Swami Shriyukteshwar Giri
1855–1936
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Shrimat Bhupendranath Sanyal Mahashaya
1877–1962
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Paramahamsa Yogananda
1893–1952
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Swami Satyananda Giri
1896–1971
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Paramahamsa Hariharananda
1907–2002
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Paramahamsa Prajnanananda
Living master
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Why Personal Transmission Matters
In the Indian tradition, the deepest knowledge is not transmitted as information but as a living experience — parampara, a chain from teacher to disciple. In the understanding of this tradition, initiation is not the acquisition of a text, but a connection to a living line of teachers. That is why the techniques are taught in person, not from a book or a video.
At a time when many branches and organizations have grown from the original teaching, our practice remains rooted in a living, unbroken transmission from master to disciple. We do not see this continuity as grounds for superiority, but as a commitment to protect the purity of the practice and to pass it on with humility.