“With the deepest devotion of my soul I bow to my Eternal Masters, Shree Lahiri Mahasayaji and Swami Shree Yukteshwarji, whose blessings in the style of Kriya Yoga Practice enlightened me to realize that Kriya Yoga practice is a quick solution to all problems in life.”

From 1985 until today, Guruji Swami Shree Yogi Satyam has conducted countless Kriya Yoga classes for the public. His courses have always been offered in the spirit of service and completely free of charge. With increasing fellowship from students all over the globe, (including India, United States, Australia, Canada, Russia, Poland, Brazil et al.) Yogi Satyam never stops in his work as is witnessed by any who choose to live and work alongside him.

Yogi Satyam’s family and education background is in the medical field. After graduating with a degree in biological sciences in India, he continued on to medical school. He soon realized, however, that Kriya Yoga meditation was far superior and more complete than any learned medical practice. Divinely inspired, he left medical school in order to dedicate himself to the spread of Kriya Yoga full-time. Not only can Kriya Yoga effectively heal physical ailments, but it leads one to increased power, fulfillment, confidence, and motivation as well. Yogi Satyam teaches Kriya Yoga so that anyone may realize that every person in creation is potentially vast and infinite. The curing of physical and mental illness, along with an increasingly enhanced quality of life, is but a by-product along the way to one’s ultimate fulfillment.

Yogi Satyam is a Kriya Yoga Master. His deep and ceaseless practice of Kriya Yoga offers a tremendous, transformational opportunity to anyone sincerely interested in improving your own life, and the lives of those around you. “My sole purpose,” Yogi Satyam has stated, “is to help you become more and more committed to your practice of Kriya Yoga.”

Yogi Satyam’s work is conducted formally through his Institute/ashram in Allahabad, U.P., India, located on the banks of the Ganges River. One major part of his work in India is dedicated to outreach programs for India’s rural villages, where virtually no outsiders ever visit. The poverty of these areas is extreme, but so is the depth of their people’s character. Yogi Satyam leads Kriya Yoga sessions to the villagers and teaches them, through scientific step-by-step methods, on how to increase their confidence, health, productivity, and prosperity. Among others, one of the most important topics covered by Yogi Satyam is the science of complete nutrition. This endeavor is not unlike the travels of Gandhi throughout rural India, where the Mahatma saw the most important political issue was to first teach villagers proper diet. By instilling simple, healthy, and high-minded living standards grounded in the teachings of Kriya Yoga, Yogi Satyam provides a tremendous and lasting service to the villagers of India. Yogi Satyam is often invited back by these villages (indeed he is lovingly and at times tearfully begged not to leave them in the first place!) to be greeted again after some months by increased interest from a happier and healthier people.

Because of this important humanitarian work, Yogi Satyam’s Institute/ashram in Allahabad continues to expand.  By as special grant from the Government of India, Yogi Satyam has been given permission to build two very large dormitories and a shrine off of the banks of the Ganges River. This area had been barred from further development because of its placement on the Mela grounds (a place where literally millions flock during the January – February months every year for a large spiritual festival and to bath in the Sangam, or the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers). But seeing the tremendous work Yogi Satyam was doing, the government granted him this property that now consists as the upper campus of his Kriya Yoga Research Institute. Important to the Kriya Yoga tradition, this site is also the home of the sacred Banyan tree where Mahavatar Babaji visited Sri Yukteshwar, requesting him to write the Holy Science and prophesying to him about the spread of Kriya Yoga throughout the world.* A shrine is currently being constructed near the Banyan tree. Yogi Satyam often holds classes there, and it is a favorite spot to meditate among visitors and residents of the Institute.

Yogi Satyam teaches classes regularly at the Institute/ashram while he is in residence there. He conducts retreats for people in the area and for students of the nearby university. He is also currently building a school located between Allahabad and its sister city Varaanasi (Banares). These are just a few of his projects in India, as he is constantly coordinating new ways and means to spread the benefits of Kriya Yoga throughout India and the world.

With his roots in India, Yogi Satyam has regularly been traveling and teaching globally since 1995. He has his North American center, Yog Fellowship, in Kitchener, Ontario. He also travels regularly to various countries several times a year teaching Kriya Yoga classes, often hosted by students that have benefited greatly from Kriya Yoga practice themselves.

 

*The Banyan Tree meeting between these two masters is written about in Chapter 36 of Autobiography of a Yogi, entitled "Babaji's Interest in the West."