18 Facts About Satyanarayana Dasa

Dr Satyanarayana Dasa was born on 9 June 1954 and is an Indian Gaudiya Vaisnava scholar and practitioner.

Currently based in India at the Jiva Institute, which he founded, Dasa has published numerous books and original papers in the field of Gaudiya Vaisnavism including translations and commentaries on the Sat Sandarbhas.

Satyanarayana Dasa's honors include an award from the President of India in 2012.

Satyanarayana Dasa has been called a leading living practitioner-scholar of Jiva Gosvamin.

Satyanarayana Dasa grew up in a village named Palla near Faridabad, Haryana in India.

Satyanarayana Dasa learned the six systems of Indian philosophy under Swami Shyama Sharana Maharaja and various other traditional gurus with a special focus on Nyaya.

Dr Satyanarayana Dasa has been bestowed with the "Grateful to Gurus 2023" award by Indica, an institute for Indian knowledge systems and has been called a living legend of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.

Dr Satyanarayana Dasa's research is in the philosophy and theology of the Caitanya School of Vaisnavism.

Satyanarayana Dasa has published more than 20 books including original translations and commentaries of the Sat-sandarbhas by Jiva Goswami.

Satyanarayana Dasa has contributed to different research journals with other academics.

Uskokov suggests that Satyanarayana Dasa "clearly knows Jiva's works in and out and is at home with this high point of Sanskrit learning in the sixteenth century and the traditions from which Jiva draws ideas, such as Vedic hermeneutics, Sanskrit grammar, Indian epistemology and poetics, and so on".

Dr Satyanarayana Dasa has lectured or taught at various universities, such as Universite Terre de Ciel, France, Heidelberg University and University of Tubingen, Germany, Zurich University, Switzerland, Mississippi State University, State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, and University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

Satyanarayana Dasa regularly teaches scholars from different universities on personal request.

Dr Satyanarayana Dasa has developed a new subject, Jiva Vedic Psychology, based on his studies and experience of Indian scriptures.

Satyanarayana Dasa is currently training psychotherapists of Sandy Pines hospital, Florida and Fort Lauderdale Hospital in new techniques of treating patients through Vedic Psychology.

Under the guidance of Haridas Shastri Maharaj and with the assistance of his brothers Rishi and Dr Partap Chauhan, Satyanarayana Dasa founded the Jiva Institute in 1992.

Satyanarayana Dasa is the director of the cultural division, located at Sheetal Chaya in Vrindavan, India.

In 2016, Satyanarayana Dasa started a five-year course in Indian schools of philosophy running each year from Oct to end of April at the Jiva Institute, co-taught by Dr Jan Brzezinski, and visiting professors, such as Prof.