About Me

I am Nrikeśarī Dāsa. I am a professional Vedic astrologer connected to the 500-year-old Śrī Ācyutānanda lineage and their current proponents, Pandit Sanjay Rath and Freedom Cole. I have studied Yoga Therapy in the living tradition of Śrī T. Krishnamacharya with Dr. Ganesh Mohan and his family, and extended my Ayurveda training with Dr. Vasant Lad’s faculty. I aspire to integrate classical yoga, Ayurveda, Vedic astrology, and Vedānta with modern therapeutic science and holistic well-being.

Mexico in 2021

I have been intrigued by Vedic wisdom since I can remember and have lived in ashrams, temples and sacred places all over the world. I spent six years living as a monk in temples in India, Australia, Mexico, the United Kingdom, New York and Germany. I got trained to rise early, practise daily meditation, study Vedic wisdom and inquire into the nature of the self and the world that it contains. My spiritual search led me across the globe multiple times to meet some of our time's most magnificent, knowledgeable and respectable teachers and traditions.

Mantra initiation in 2018

“Even the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
— Lao Tzu

I offer my respectful obeisances to my spiritual param guru, Srila Prabhupada, whose books, teachings and students allowed me entrance into the Vedic pantheon and an understanding of the world more extraordinary than anything I could have ever imagined. Srila Prabhupada’s translations of the 5000-year-old Vedic classics, such as Bhagavad-Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam, helped me to assimilate the timeless wisdom of an advanced civilisation from many millennia ago. The Bhagavad Gita explains the self's real identity, material nature, reincarnation, karma and freedom therefrom.

A sketch or drawing of an elderly man with a thoughtful expression, resting his chin on his hands, with a thoughtful pose and detailed facial features.

Swami Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada

My Jyotisha Guru’s Sri Freedom Cole and Pandit Sanjaya Rath, and the study of the ancient astrological classics such as Brihad Parasara Hora Sastra shed a more profound light on how the living entity gets entangled in material nature, how karma unfolds in everyone's life, day after day, year after year and from birth to death. Even though I am just starting my journey, my teachers encourage me to practice, and thus, on their order, I am offering my services.

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Great sage Parasara Muni

“He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter and is unmanifested. He is knowledge, he is the object of knowledge, and he is the goal of knowledge. He is situated in everyone’s heart.”

— Bhagavad-Gita 13.18