Lahiri Mahasaya agreed to initiate him in Kriya Yoga under the condition that he give up his sannyas vows and return to a householder life.

Paramahansa Yogananda in his book, Autobiography of a Yogi wrote: The master now permitted his disciple, Panchanon Bhattacharya, to open in Calcutta a yoga center, the "Arya Mission Institution".

The centre distributed certain yogic herbal medicines, and published the first inexpensive editions in Bengal of the Bhagavad-Gita.

[3]The physical place of The Aryya Mission Institution as founded by Panchanan Bhattacharya in 1886 closed many years ago.

Many disciples initiated by Lahiri Mahasaya also went to Panchanan Bhattacharya for advanced Kriya yoga instruction.