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Why Kriya Yoga is not taught online
A plain answer to the question this mandir is asked most often, and the reason the answer will not change.
By Guru Sanjay Nath · 26 July 2026
People write to ask whether Kriya Yoga can be learned remotely — by video, by written instruction, by a course. The answer is no, and since the question is asked so often it is worth setting out why rather than simply declining.
The technique is short and the details are everything
Kriya can be described in a few sentences. That is exactly the problem. The same movement performed at a different tempo, or with the attention resting a few centimetres from where it should, is not a slightly worse version of the practice — it is a different practice, with different effects.
Written instructions cannot detect that this has happened. A teacher sitting in front of you can.
The correction is the teaching
What a student receives at diksha is not only the technique. It is entry into a relationship in which their practice will be watched and corrected for as long as they keep coming back.
Remove the correction and what remains is information. Information about Kriya is freely available and has helped nobody.
This is not scarcity marketing
Nothing is being withheld to raise its value. Diksha is given without charge at this mandir, to anyone the Guru judges ready, and no one is turned away for lacking money.
What cannot be given is a technique without the person who can tell you that you are doing it wrong.
What you can do from where you are
- Establish a daily meditation, ten minutes to begin with.
- Find a seated posture you can hold without distress.
- Read what is on this site about the practices that are public.
- Come to the mandir when you can.
Everything on that list is preparation, and none of it is wasted.
