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Satya Narayana Dasa PhD is the founder and director of Jiva Institute of Vedic Studies. Trained as an engineer in India, he worked in the U.S. as a software engineer before returning to India where he met his guru, Sri Haridasa Sastri Maharaja. He earned a doctorate in Sanskrit along with a degree in law from Agra University. His deep respect for the wisdom of the ancients motivated him to translate five important works from Sanskrit into English. Dr. Satya Narayana Dasa founded Jiva Institute of Vedic Studies to promote Vedic Culture, philosophy, and Ayurveda through education. He regularly gives classes on Sanskrit language and Gaudiya Vaisnava literature; and has authored many books on the subject. He has contributed to the 25 volume work brought out by the project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture. The Research and Advisory Board of the International Biographical Center of Cambridge, England has selected Dr. Satya Narayana Dasa as one of a very limited number of individuals to receive the international accolade “International Educator of the Year 2004.” Dr. Satyanarayana Dasa’s message to humankind is to be in the flow of things with simplicity, but without becoming an impediment to the ways of nature. He emphasizes attaining knowledge of the absolute reality by pursuing ways that lead to the harmonious development of the collective human consciousness.