Swami Veda Bharati has spent the past 58
years
teaching and providing spiritual guidance around the world. He was
raised in the five-thousand-year-old tradition of Sanskrit-speaking
scholar-philosophers of India, and has taught the Yoga-sutras of
Patanjali from the age of nine and the Vedas from the age of eleven.
Author of the most comprehensive commentary on Patanjali's Yoga-sutras
and many other books, Swami Veda is a poet, scholar, research guide and
international speaker par excellence.
All of his knowledge has
come intuitively, and he has attained the highest academic degrees,
B.A. (Honors) (London), M.A. (London), Dr. Litt. (Holland), all between
June 1965 and 1967. In 1969, he met his Spiritual Master, Swami Rama,
and was initiated into one of the highest paths of Dhyana-yoga.
He
has studied and is well-versed in the scriptures of all religions,
understands 17 languages with varying degrees of fluency, which allows
him to teach meditation to people of different faiths - Hindus,
Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs - from within their own
scriptural and meditative traditions. As he is familiar with all known
meditative traditions and the different schools of eastern and western
philosophies, the Buddhists are given Buddhist mantras, the Christians
are guided in accordance with the rich Christian meditative and
contemplative traditions, and so forth.
Upon meeting him, one is
immediately aware that one is in the presence of an extraordinary
person who has incorporated spirituality into his daily life, one who
can speak with authority and depth about a person's relationship to
others, to the events of daily life, and to God.
Before taking
his vows of Swamihood in 1992, he was known as Dr. Usharbudh Arya. A
prolific writer and speaker, he is the author of numerous books,
including Super conscious Meditation, Mantra and Meditation, Meditation
and the Art of Dying, Philosophy of Hatha Yoga, God, Sayings, and
Yoga-sutras of Patanjali.
