H.H. Sri Swami Rama of the Himalayas and his disciple, Swami Veda Bharati, have provided the inspiration for the organizations and their activities. Swami Veda Bharati continues to steer SRSG as its Spiritual Guide and Director.

SRSG Publications ('SRSGP') is SRSG's independent, self-sustaining division. Starting with the recording of Swami Veda Bharati's talks and lectures, and marketing the tapes, SRSGP has since grown into three compact divisions: publishing, production, and sales.

Within its very first year of operations, SRSGP recorded a more than modest growth in its activities.

As well as a wide selection of titles from other spiritual organizations and publishers of serious literature in India and abroad, such as Bihar School of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Motilal Banarsidass, and others, in addition to its own imprints, the SRSGP bookshop stocks Yoga kit, aromatics, and exclusive handmade jewellery.

Swami Veda Bharati

The Spiritual Director and Preceptor of Sadhana Mandir and Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama, Swami Veda Bharati, has for the past 53 years been teaching and providing spiritual guidance around the world. He was raised in the five-thousand-year-old tradition of Sanskrit-speaking scholar-philosophers of India.

He has taught the Yogasutras of Patanjali since he was nine, and the Vedas since the age of eleven. Author of the most comprehensive commentary to date on the Yogasutras, and of many other books, Swami Veda is a poet, scholar, research guide, and international speaker par excellence.

All his knowledge has come intuitively, and he has attained the highest academic degrees, B.A. (Honours) (London), M.A. (London), and D.Litt. (Holland), all between June 1965 and 1967. In 1969 he met his Spiritual Master, Swami Rama of the Himalayas, who initiated him into one of the highest paths of Dhyana Yoga.

He has studied and is well-versed in the scriptures of all religions, understands 17 languages with varying degrees of fluency, which allows him to teach meditation to people of different faiths-Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs-from within their own scriptural and meditative traditions. Familiar with the different schools of Eastern and Western philosophy, he is able to impart Buddhist mantras to the Buddhists, guidance to the Christians in accordance with the rich Christian meditative and contemplative traditions, and so forth.

Upon meeting him, one immediately becomes aware of being in the presence of an extraordinary person who has incorporated spirituality into his daily life, and who can speak with authority and depth about a person's relationship to others, to the events of daily life, and to God.