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BIOGRAPHY
''' Dr.Vedavyas I.A.S.,D.Litt was born in the family of Vedic Scholars and Yoga teachers - or "ACHARYAS". Initiated into Yoga, Gayatri Mantra, Vedas and Upanishads at the age of 7 years, Mastered in Vedic wisdom including Astrology, Mantra Shastra, Yoga and also took his Master's Degree in Zoology at the age of 19 in Andhra University - without attending any western school! He was educated in strict "Gurukula" style of oral teaching, in the manner of Vedic Rishies. He was taken out on an elephant in procession as the youngest student-topper of his college. Working as the head of Zoology Department at the age of Nineteen in the Loyala College, Dr.Vedavyas entered the IAS (Indian Administrative service) in 1959 by all India competition. He was awarded M.Phill in Public Administration in New Delhi as a senior Administrator and got his Ph.D. in Sanskrit. As a Yoga teacher, he runs 200 Yoga centers all over the state.

He excelled as a Cricketer, painter, Clay-modeller and composer of Sanskrit kirtanas(Songs), and won prizes. Dr.Vedavyas was however, renowned in the ancient arts of palmistry, Astrology, Numerology and physiognomy! Although he never practiced Astrology or Palm History for profit, he was consulted by atleast two of India's Presidents in the past and two of her Vice Presidents.

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LIFE
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The Life that is Dedication!!
We often come across, Living lights - men whose lives are dedicated to a great cause!

Our mind remembers Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda, Lenin, Rabindranath Tagore, Michael Angelo and many others - where, a person is totally dedicated to a great cause! It may be a long and dedicated life donated to the freedom of the Holy Motherland! It can be a new economic order to liberate the toiling millions. It could be a new scientific discovery that may abolish all diseases and suffering with a wonder drug! It can be a sculpture with himalayan ideas like Michael Angelo's immortal sculptures - each of which is a 'poem in marble'! Whatever the field, the dedication is for Excellence! But it is rare to find a man, who is dedicated to the science of producing the excellant Humanity-the art of Man making for building up a Greater Tomorrow!!! In this cosmic fire of a Holy Yagna - the philosopher, the political leader, the artist, the sculptor, the scientist and the Divine Mystic, are all like the buring sticks converging to a focus - the focus of a blazing humanity.

What makes these persons bigger than their contemporaries ? It is not money. For many are those who die unheard, buried under their riches. It is not also political power for the memory of Hitler is still fresh and frightening. It is not power - either political power or mystical power to work miracles! For, many are the 'wonder workers' who are ignored by the day!

The greatest miracle is 'Life'. These are the people, who Worship Life! 'All life is Yoga' - taught Dr. Vedavyas whose Life and Work are summed up in the following pages of this Felicitation Volume.

This marks the grateful Felicitation of his many friends and admirers from all walks of life who have been witness to, and are the beneficiaries from his Great personality!

Therefore we thought it appropriate to include in this Book-let some of the experiences of Dr., Vedavyas's disciples too, which show that the power of his yoga is superior to other systems in vogue. These experiences are very rare to those following other schools of practice and are virtually beyond the purview of religious practices and routine practitioners of yoga who worship without a competent Guru. Even Dr. Vedavyas's band of disciples are varied; Doctors, Engineers, Scientists, Civil Servants, Housewifes, Children whoever it may be, the experiences are similar, but inspiring. They are a reality!

For, it is the grace of a competent master that gives bliss and spiritual contementment to the aspirant. The grace that flows from the Master, awakens the 'Kundalini' the latent serpent power and opens up the inner 'Chakras'. The grace can be felt as a perceivable force, either as waves of bliss and ecstasy or as vibrfations of electrical energy of light. For, some have received his Blessings - and were cured of their sickness. Others, were healed of their sorrows - under his living eye. Many have benefited from his Future seeing Prophetic gift! And this includes the former Presidents of India like Dr.S. Radha Krishnan, Sri V.V. Giri and many others, in diverse fields - like film stars, men of letters, Scintists, and the small fry - the common man!

WORSHIP OF THE COMMON MAN
It is to the last and the smallest of his visitors that Dr. Vedavyas showered all his love - for, the smallest man is the often ignored flower in the Garden of Humanity. Like a gardener who rushes to repair the most badly damaged flower - Sri Vedavyas had many times made the helping of the poor and the defenseless, his first attention. Often times he had even to risk the ire of the powerful and the mighty. Many are the occasions he let go a billion-dollar chance without a second look back, in order to attend the unattended. For, he truly believed in the Divine that 'sleeps in the poorest of slums' - the children who play on the streets, the orphans who have none to care. The reason is astounding - "For, I am myself homeless, and lonely, in this world, which is blind to human suffering"

Dr. Vedavyas himself suffered like any youngster in the ordinary run of life - but out of every suffering of his came a solution for the suffering millions!

His early education and experiences in schooling made him build Gurukula Schools where children are cared fed and looked after, as part of their Education, whose basis is 'the development of the individual'. His encounters with the problems of ill planned education system through which millions are milled and grilled in needless suffering made him feel, that - "Our Education is not geared to our needs! Our Education system is governed by the uneducated" - declared Dr. Vedavyas with a heavy heart. The result is that he established a number of Gurukul Ashram Public Schools 'where the Government syllabus is not only not followed - but abolished!' as Dr. Vedavyas declared unhesitatingly. He did this, even while he worked in Government as a Senior Officer.

Besides, he found that many ancient traditional sciences like Ayurveda, Jyotisha, Yoga and many other fields are excluded from the country's education system. He therefore set out to establish the University of Vedic Sciences.

He traveled to America, lectured in Harvard and 'United Nations' in 1985, 1986 & 1987 and at the "Parliament of World Religions" in 1993, a hundred years after Swami Vivekananda. Here too Dr. Vedavyas found that too many swamijis, Sanyasins and Sadhus sell our Religious prasadams, bhajans and build ashrams and mint money - and they even die rich but purposeless! Because:

"None of them had the sense to write a Text book in Hinduism for answering the need of millions of educated Hindu youth who are eager to learn what the Vedas have to teach"

The result is that Dr. Vedavyas toiled for ten long years to condense the essence of the Teachings of Veda and Upanishads - for, he was trained in traditional Vedic Gurukula in the Meaning of the Vedas, and was also trained in other Vedic disciplines like yoga, Astrology and the Vedic Ritual in all of which, he is a qualified Acharya or a Master!

For, he was initiated into yoga at the age of seven. But his learning did not end with Hatha Yoga or Raja Yoga. Dr. Vedavyas looked for new light - a New Yoga that not merely promises liberation from rebirth or Moksha. No! For, what the toiling millions of the century need is a totally New Yoga of total transformation.

He was himself initiated into Kriya Yoga; he was also a Theosophist; and is a member of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood. He was also familiar with many other latest spiritual movements like Gurdjieff's Teachings and Master CVV Yoga. but he took the essence in each of these branches of Yoga - to make a New Synthesis!

For the Consciousness of millions must be altered - the human race as a whole, must be evolved to next higher level with the help of yoga. so a New Yoga - a Global yoga which does not withdraw from life and shun the evils of society by withdrawing into a indrawn shell of Yogic Samadhi. No! The Yoga that Dr. Vedavyas taught is "Life that is poetry in action! Individual life with a cosmic rhythm".

He demonstrates this, every day and every hour of his life by showing by example, how it is possible to realise the Divine not by isolating from life - but by embracing life.

==== REVERENCE FOR LIFE ==== Reverence for life, compassion, kindness, love and understanding he showered aplenty on the unfortunate the lowly and the disabled - and this includes our political leaders, captains of business and many make believe leaders! In one word, he is a Man Dedicated to Life itself! For, Life and God, are the two faces of the same reality! In this sense the Religion of Dr. Vedavyas is directly contrary to the world shunning ascetic religions of yesterday like Christianity, or Islam and even the asceticism in Hinduism.

The reason is simple. The whole world today is becoming a Global Community - all the countries of the world have come together by shrinking of Time and space, All the nations have become like villages - no! Like huts in a village! The whole world has become one family - before we realise it.

This is our opportunity! Opportunity to serve the whole World as never before in the past. this is our chance - and if we miss it, we miss life itself! This is an Evolutionary leap for which the whole of humanity is preparing itself for the last five thousand years. "Ours is the Luck - to be born at this time! Let us make the best out of it"

These words of Dr. Vedavyas sum up the essence of what the Man is - better than any of his best friends could describe.

These pages, though few, contain rich material for those who look deep at the many faces of a diamond like personality; a researcher and discoverer, an educationist who educates you as you know him. a worldwide traveler and a Messenger of a spiritual and Divine culture of great antiquity, a Yoga Teacher who uses Yoga as a means to change the quality of humanity - a Prophet who sees into Future unclouded by the present.

Herein lies the uniqueness of the Man. He is one of those few and rare beings whose sole aim and pleasure in life is to help humanity - without assuming to be so!

His travels in USA including his historic and prophetic speeches addressed at the united Nations (UN) on the occasion of its 40th Anniversary on 23rd October, 1984 and again on 24th September, 1986 during his second visit, his revealing discourses at Pittsburgh Temple and at the universities, Colleges and Seminars in USA, are land marks in the annals of Indian Culture.

A born Guru, coming from a tradition of seven generations of Yoga Teachers, he was not educated in any modern school!

Dr. Vedavyas holds besides a Master Degree in Zoology as a former Professor, a Doctorate in Sanskrit for the remarkable work "Astronomical Dating of Mahabharatha War", which was published with a Foreword by H.H. Dalai Lama! The facts revealed are only few of necessity, where the booklet is to be small. But what it reveals is not small.

It opens a window, to a Being who revealed as much as he concealed in his own being. a Universal Man, who it is a pleasure to know.

This Felicitation is no homage - it is statement of a bare fact!

Let us therefore offer it with the simplicity of Truth!

... For, he is truly a Universal Man!!!

Om Tat Sat!

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WORK
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Preserve:
The Hoary Wisdom of Ancient Knowledge of Vedic Rishis, Lamas and masters of the East.

Convey:
The Message of peace and enlightenment of the true path in this Western World in this critical phase in the life of Mankind.

Rare Researcher :
As a discoverer with a Golden touch, Dr.Vedavyas has the luck for stumbling upon the rare and startling discoveries. He discovered a rare copper plate inscription of the Mahabartha King "Janmejaya" dating to 3065 B.C. followed by others of same kind!

This proved the date of Mahabartha war which he fixed in Sept. 3138 B.C. in his Doctoral research on "Astronomical Dating of Mahabharata war". He was awarded Ph.D. in Sanskrit for this discovery! Dr.Vedavyas discovered the lost Verses of the Bhagawad Gita - 45 extra slokas found in a rare Palm-Leaf Manuscript.

Looking in to the Future:
Among the many celebrities, three Presidents of India consulted Dr.Vedavyas about the future of India and their own destiny.

Among the many celebrities, three Presidents of India consulted Dr.Vedavyas about the future of India and their own destiny.

His prophetic power of looking into the future is so accurate that he foresaw, and published well in advance following facts.
 * Violent death of John. F. Kennedy.
 * The passing away of Jawaharlal Nehru, Mother of Pondichery & Mao Tse Tung.
 * Chinese invasion of India in 1962.
 * The split between Russia and China.
 * The split of congress in 1969.
 * The sweep by 'Telugu Desam' and the coming to power of N.T.Rama Rao as chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh state in India.