To understand the ancient world, it may be better to visit the holy places of India where the ancient traditions are still unbroken, rather than try to interpret ancient ruins through bricks and pottery shards, which scholars today usually do so according to their own modern mindsets, not recognizing the all-pervasive regard for the sacred that was the basis of ancient life and culture. Indeed we could say that India is a living museum of the ancient world and its lost civilizations. Spiritual and occult arts such as abounded in the ancient world – including Yoga, Vedic astrology, Ayurvedic medicine and the use of rituals (Yajnas) to improve all aspects of our lives – remain commonly used and are honored by the culture of India as a whole.
Indeed it seems that the ancient world never ended in India but has continually maintained and, at times, reinvented itself. The same type of temples with similar forms of ritual worship that were known in ancient Egypt, Babylonia, or Greece thousand of years ago still occur throughout India today from Badrinath in the Himalayas to the north to Kanyakumari in the south. Yet they are perhaps most common in India, which even today the spiritual practices of the ancient world continue and its characteristic regard for the sacred.
Secrets of ancient humanity and lost civilizations can be found all over the world. His complete works can be accessed through Secrets of Ancient Civilizations: the Vedic Connections In addition to directing his institute, he conducts major lecture tours in India every year, delivering talks at universities, Hindu conferences, and to the general public.Īs an American Hindu, Frawley is one of the few Westerners to be recognized by a major Hindu sect in India as a Vedacharya or teacher of the ancient wisdom.
Through his institute, he offers courses on Yoga philosophy, Hindu astrology ( jyotisha), and Ayurveda. He learned Sanskrit from a Sanskrit grammar book and a copy of the Vedas around 1970 In 2000, his book How I Became a Hindu, details his own spiritual journey from his earlier Catholic upbringing to finally embracing Hinduism as his religion. He is a Vaidya (Ayurvedic doctor), and a Jyotishi (Vedic astrologer). He is also a Professor of Vedic Astrology and Ayurveda at the International Vedic Hindu University (IVHU). David Frawley (or Vāmadeva Śāstrī वामदेव शास्त्री) is an author on Hinduism, Yoga and Ayurveda, and the founder and director of the American Institute for Vedic Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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