Prof. Narasimhan

Prof. Narasimhan

M. A. Narasimhan, Director of the Anantha Research Foundation in Mysore, is a science graduate holding a Masters in Education with specialization in advanced psychology and research methodology, and also in Sanskrit. He has specialized in the Indian philosophical systems and the various practices of yoga, and is a disciple of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He is a teacher of Transcendental Meditation, having taught the TM technique to more than 20,000 people and trained more than 1,000 teachers of Transcendental Meditation.

He has held many responsible posts in the then Mahrishi Institute of Creative Intelligence. As the director for the TM operation in the entire south India, he had more than 600 teachers helping him to spread the message of TM. He was instrumental in opening small-scale industries and many schools in different parts of India. He has been a Siddha practitioner, reaping the benefits of advanced techniques.

He is a research scholar specializing in the fields of Indian culture and the Sciences of ancient India with a considerable number of books, monographs, and papers in the fields of Indian history, Science, Sanskrit and philosophy to his credit.

Currently he is engaged in the investigation of "Supa saastra in Indian tradition (the food tradition of India)" with INSA, 'History and geographical information in the Puranas' with Bharateeya itihasa sankalana Yojana, and preparing a critical edition of Patanjali's Yogasutra with all the available commentaries and their English translation with Asian classics Input Project, New York and also on 'Cosmology in ancient Indian Texts'.