Dr. Vedavyas – The Man & His Work
Dr. Vedavyas comes from a family of traditional Vedic scholars or ” Acharya Purushas” for seven generations! Born in August 1934 he was initiated into Vedas, Mantra Shastra, Shrautam, Yoga and Ayurveda from the age of 7-years, by his father, Dr. Anantacharya who was his Guru who educated him without sending him to a school !
Collector, Commissioner and Secretary to Govt., for 32 years till he resigned from IAS in 1992 to set up a University of Vedic Sciences in USA as a “Religious University” which is empowered to give B.A. & B.Sc. Degrees in the Vedic Religion and Vedic Sciences like yoga, Ayurveda, Jyotisham and other Vedic Shastras.
He has authored over 70 books in English, Telugu and Kannada. The Variety, depth and mastery of the bewildering of subjects can be seen from his books.
He was trained in the “Gurukula” tradition based on character building and he passed his Matriculation from Kashi at 13 years of age! He then entered the Hindu College in Intermediate with Natural Sciences and stood first in the college and as the youngest student.
In 1954 he passed out of Andhra University with a Masters Degree and worked as a Lecturer in Zoology in Loyola College. He was selected to the prestigious IAS in 1959 by All India competition and worked as collector.
Dr. Vedavyas is a first class researcher who discovered the 45-Extra Slokas of the “Original Bhagavad Gita” – Lost over 2000 years ago for wich he was awarded the Post Doctoral Degree of D.Litt. in Sanskrit. Earlier he was awarded Ph.D. in Sanskrit for his thesis on the Astronomical Dating of Mahabharatha War. He wrote extensively on Yoga, Astrology, Vedic Religion, Art, Literature and Temple Science of Agama Sastra the Space Age!
His Work!
For a long thirty years period, of dedicated campaigning, for the Revival of ancient Cultural heritage and the spiritual values which are long buried under the greed of politics, business and crime – and for reviving and restoring the younger generation back to a life of to patriotism, dedication and character building – he toured the length and breadth of India, Lecturing to crowded audiences – ‘organising Yoga Camps’, “Group Meditation Centers”and for Book clubs for fostering the study of the Bhagawad Gita and other spiritual literature. He has ultimately succeeded, in settingup over 210 Spiritual centres in India.
With these ‘centres of operation’ – of individual groups of parents and children on Sunday evenings for a ‘Sat-sang’ – he set about ‘charging the battery of the Mind’, brain and the weakened nervous system of our youth, drained out due to negative habits, irresponsible life style and addicted to stimulants, fast food, drugs and drinks etc besides spending their leisure in organised violence and crime and support to political leaders!
He finally succeeded in creating dedicated Groups of youth who regularly attend the Satsang practice Yoga Asanas and Pranayama and read the Spiritual electrifying literature to give a direction and purpose to their life. He has set up ‘Meditation Centers’ of Satsang at these places.
To give purpose and dynamism to their mental, physical and spiritual exercises, which would otherwise degenerate into a dull routine – he has organized Community Projects like the construction of Temples, not merely as shrines of worship but as spiritual schools and “Meditation Colleges” in a number of places scattered in widely segregated areas of differing languages, food and cultural habits.
A LIFE THAT IS DEDICATION!
We offen come across, Living Lights- men whose lives are dedicated to a great cause!
Our mind remenbers Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore and many others- where, a person is totally dedicated to a great cause!