Hatha Vidya Ashram's lineage dates back more than 5,000 years to the Sannyasa Acharyas of Shiva, Narayana, and Sri Dattatreya with its present formation based on Sri Adi Shankacharya’s Panch Dasnam Sannyas Holy Order. (Established in 9th century A.D.) Yogiraj Dawat Giri ji  initiated Sanyasi within the Juna Akhara (the largest and oldest organization of naga sadhus within the order).

Yogiraj Dawat Giri ji Maharaj
 is the namesake and co-founder of the Hatha Vidya Ashram, whose lives as an example to many.
Babaji, Guruji, was a renunciate made by destiny, as in his early childhood the divine will took away.