“Even the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
— Lao Tzu
I am Nrikesari Das. I am a professional Vedic astrologer connected to the 500-year-old Sri Achyutananda lineage and its current proponents, Pandit Sanjaya Rath and Sri Freedom Cole. I graduated from Science of Light Level 1 and Level 2. I have studied Prasna and Muhurta sastra under Elliot Hocker and am currently completing the 5 year Parasara Jyotisha course. I am a student. I just began. I don’t know everything, but on the order of my guru, I am practising. I am pretty good, but I am not perfect yet.
Mexico in 2021
I have been intrigued by Vedic wisdom since I can remember and have lived in ashrams, temples and sacred places all over the world. I spent six years living as a monk in temples in India, Australia, Mexico, the United Kingdom, New York and Germany. I got trained to rise early, practise daily meditation, study Vedic wisdom and inquire into the nature of the self and the world that it contains. My spiritual search led me across the globe multiple times to meet some of our time's most magnificent, knowledgeable and respectable teachers and traditions.
Mantra initiation in 2018
I offer my respectful obeisances to my spiritual param guru, Srila Prabhupada, whose books, teachings and students allowed me entrance into the Vedic pantheon and an understanding of the world more extraordinary than anything I could have ever imagined. Srila Prabhupada’s translations of the 5000-year-old Vedic classics, such as Bhagavad-Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam, helped me to assimilate the timeless wisdom of an advanced civilisation from many millennia ago. The Bhagavad Gita explains the self's real identity, material nature, reincarnation, karma and freedom therefrom.
Swami Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada
My Jyotisha Guru’s Sri Freedom Cole and Pandit Sanjaya Rath, and the study of the ancient astrological classics such as Brihad Parasara Hora Sastra shed a more profound light on how the living entity gets entangled in material nature, how karma unfolds in everyone's life, day after day, year after year and from birth to death. Even though I am just starting my journey, my teachers encourage me to practice, and thus, on their order, I am offering my services.
Great sage Parasara Muni
“He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter and is unmanifested. He is knowledge, he is the object of knowledge, and he is the goal of knowledge. He is situated in everyone’s heart.”
— Bhagavad-Gita 13.18