The Sanskrit Classics publishes writings on the essential classical scriptures of the Vedic culture, as interpreted in the light of Realization by various Masters of Yoga.

Lahiri Mahasay, fully-realized householder Yogi of Benares and the polestar, the navigator of Kriya Yoga, wrote commentaries on 26 scriptures between 1888 and 1895. When completed, the Commentaries Series will include the first English translations of all 26 scriptural commentaries by him.

According to tradition, there is no room for mass education in Original Kriya.

Swami Satyeswaranada

Yogananda, emissary of Sriyukteswar to the West for the 1930's Americans, modified the original Kriya in the Western style for mass education, and even introduced lessons through a correspondence course.

Since then Kriya Yoga is internationally popular now and many organizations are teaching Kriya Yoga in violation of the strict tradition of Guru-param-para, the system of teaching through Master and disciple having personal relationship and especially violating the direct injunctions of Mahamuni Babaji and Lahiri Mahasay not to develop organizations around the Kriya teachings. The Kriya Yoga teachings of various organizations are widely different from the Original Kriya Yoga taught in India.

Kriyas are procedures utilizing breath to attain perfect Consciousness in the physical body, leading to Oneness with the ultimate Self. They must be received personally from a Master.

The Sanskrit Classics makes the Original Kriya literature available for the first time to the English speaking world.

Swami Satyeswarananda Giri Maharaj, an eminent Sanskrit scholar, possesses rare credentials as a Yogi, Vedantist, philosopher, law professor, administrator, and lawyer. After twenty years of hermitage education he spent twelve years in the Himalayas, often with Mahamuni Babaji, making annual trips to Bengal to serve the practitioners of Kriya.