Guntur: ABS Sastry pores over Vedic texts preserved on palm leaves, looking for scientific breakthroughs in space exploration, military technology, an

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2024-11-14 02:30:05

Guntur: ABS Sastry pores over Vedic texts preserved on palm leaves, looking for scientific breakthroughs in space exploration, military technology, and climate change. “The answers are in the Vedas,” he says. And he has a team of former scientists from the Indian Institute of Science, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics help him.

As head of the Srimaharshi Research Institute of Vedic Technology (SRIVT) in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur, Sastry has collaborated with the DRDO, ISRO, IIT-Madras, and other top institutions in the country.

“All the latest areas of science and technology that we are experimenting with today have comparable mentions in our scriptures. You name any area—astronomy, material sciences, aeronautics—our scriptures mention it all,” said Sastry.

Known as ‘Nano Sastry’ to his colleagues, Sastry is convinced that India’s ancient scriptures hold the answers that modern science seeks. Straddling the past and future, he is riding the wave of renewed interest in Vedic sciences.