​Acharya Shunya is the living custodian of her eminent Vedic lineage from Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India that has been imparting Vedic wisdom for generations. The first female lineage holder in a 2,000-year-old line of Vedic spiritual teachers and the first to teach in the West, Acharya Shunya is a catalyst for awakening of the human consciousness.  Shunya was given the title ‘Acharya’ by  her Guru and grandfather, Baba Ayodhya Nath, a well-known Vedic scholar, yoga and meditation master, Ayurveda expert and beloved householder saint (Grihasta Sadhu)  of the former century in India. He was the son and disciple of his guru, Paramatman Shanti Prakash, considered a living ‘seer’ of the 19th century, a prolific scholar and renowned compiler of the classic Vedic text Adi  Gita, the revealer of infinite spiritual treasures leading to inner awakening and Self-Realization.

 

Shunya’s title “Acharya” is a customary one earned from traditional spiritual education. It signifies “the master spiritual teacher.”  as an Acharya, Shunya has dedicated her life to the dissemination of Vedic knowledge for the spiritual upliftment of all beings. She is a distinguished Vedic Scholar herself, her command in the Vedic tradition stems from 14 years of traditional education and direct mentoring under her teacher.  Today, Shunya is considered an authority on nondual wisdom from the Vedas, Yoga and the living tradition of Ayurveda, and recognized for her groundbreaking work in building The Awakened Self Foundation - an institute that embodies this tradition with authenticity and insightful contemporary relevance, alongside her philanthropic activities through Vedika Global. 

 

Acharya Shunya represents the ancient Vedic tradition of India in a way that is completely authentic, yet as relevant as possible to modern sensibilities and needs. While deliberately unfolding the purest wisdom, Acharya Shunya seeks to explore how the original knowledge can benefit many different areas of life in today’s world, including cultivating conscious relationships, optimizing our communication skills, and awakening to our birthright of abiding spiritual wellbeing and inner happiness, despite mundane and karmic sorrow, physical and mental challenges. Her authoritative verse-by-verse teachings illumine the otherwise hard to interpret ideas from abstruse texts, in pure clear light. Her discourses, displaying the depth of her knowledge, greatly benefits all students, regardless of their background, spiritual alignments and state of consciousness.