My Guru’s knowledge and passion towards Vedic culture was so profound and only a sage could have that clarity. He had given many lectures to his disciples over the years. Most of them were written down by various disciples and have been published as GURUVANI (sayings of the Guru) All these publications are in Kannada.

I had decided to become a doctor when I was in my second grade. When I met my Guru there were many interactions with him regarding me wanting to be a doctor. He had given a long lecture on Ayurveda in Udupi in an Ayurveda conference. (The entire text is available in Kannada). This was many years before I met him. He had conducted several classes on Nadi Vijnyan and I had the fortune of attending two of those classes before I joined the medical college. He was an excellent ” born Vaidya”. He was adept in all Vidyas.(Vedic wisdom) He had clearly instructed me that I should study Modern medicine (allopathy)

One afternoon when I was sitting at his feet in silence in his home, he suddenly started talking, “Krishna, see the Ayurveda has suffered eight centuries of decline and modern medicine has overshadowed this wonderful Vedic science. You need to study modern medicine first so that you will understand the depth and vastness of that science. To catch up with the lost time of eight centuries Ayurveda needs to move at the supersonic speed using the modern technology. (this is the inspiration for IVAC’s slogan “ancient wisdom, modern concept”) You have some work to do later”, was the summary of his half hour talk. Few weeks later I was walking with him in Mysore between Ayurveda college on the right side and Medical college on the left side. I was new to that area at that time and he told me,”see, Krishna on your right side is the Ayurveda college and on the left is the Medical college, and people from left throw stones at these people”. (this he meant how modern medical graduates ridiculed Ayurveda education and Ayurveda doctors. Ayurveda education was considered only for those who were frustrated and could not get admissions in the medical colleges and Ayurveda doctors were treated as second class citizens especially among the medical fraternity)

I immediately questioned him asking, how come then he was asking me to study at the Medical college? Instantly he said,” yes these people throw stones from above and you throw from below” (meaning, build a foundation).

These moments with my Guru were etched in my heart ever since and thirty five years later IVAC was born.