Shri Swami Veda Bharati

(1933)

Swami Veda Bharati is a world-renowned yoga teacher and has been involved in teaching yoga for almost 50 years, not only in India but in various foreign countries too.

He was born in 1933 in a scholarly Sanskrit-speaking family in Dehradun, India. From his childhood, he developed interest in the classical text. He memorised all the 4000 rules (sutras) of Panini's Sanskrit grammar by the age of 8. He delivered his first public speech at the young age of 9. Within two years he became the master of the Upanishads and many other Hindu scriptures. At the age of 13, he began lecturing in colleges and universities not only in India but also in Africa, the Caribbean, South America and England.

He has penned numerous books on yoga and meditation, all Published in the U.S.A. He knows 17 different languages. Swami Veda thinks that with the help of yoga and meditation, people's minds can become calm and clear.