Kriya yoga guru Sri Shri Netai Charan Bandyopadhyay

Kriya yoga guru Sri Netai Charan Bandyopadhyay was born on 18.06.1894 in a pious brahmin family to Shri Bamdev Banerjee, an ardent disciple of Pandit Panchanan Bhattacharya. Netai Baba unlike other boys of his age was calm, quiet, simple and reticent with a charming personality since childhood. He did his graduation from Wellesley Mission College (present day Christian College at Bankura) and thereafter sought employment with Bengal Nagpur Railway in the finance department.

On the advice of Panchanan Baba Netai Baba was initiated into Kriya Yoga by his father Bamdev Banerjee and it is said that at the time of initiation Netai Baba had visualized in his father Panchanan Baba and therefore had accepted Panchanan Baba as his guru. Panchanan Baba used to be very pleased with the sincerity and devotion of Netai Baba in the practice of kriya and therefore used to cite him as an example amongst other disciples. Later on Netai Baba got the permission from his father to initiate others into kriya.

Having practised kriya sadhana and reaching kriya ki parawastha, Netai Baba could no longer do his job sincerely and therefore resigned from Nagpur Railways only to settle down in Shibpur, Howrah his then residence engaging himself in the practice of homeopathy, a profession, which he adopted as livelihood cum service to the society. Thereafter he used to remain in yogic trance at his residence at Bipradas Chatterjee Road, Shipbur, Howrah where his disciples and visitors used to pay visit for his darshan. With an intention of purifying the environment in and around the houses of his disciples through satsang and kriya, Netai Baba used to visit their houses as per need due his encompassing love for them. Netai Baba entered into Mahasamadhi on 09.02.1979. His eminent disciples include Maheswari Prasad Dubey, Nirdanand Brahmachari, Rangnath Tewari, Kumudranjan Banerjee, Shrikant Bagri, Parimal Das, Amal Bikash Choudhury and others. Netai Baba had also initiated his wife Molina Devi into kriya .