Jeffrey Armstrong (Kavindra Rishi), Vedic scholar and astrologer, is author of the best-selling book Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar, and founder of VASA, Vedic Academy of Sciences & Arts, an on-line learning institution that makes a large curriculum of the ancient wisdom of India available as instant downloads, presented in easy to understand English. Philosopher, practitioner, and teacher of the Vedas for more than 40 years, prior to his teaching he had a successful career as an executive in Silicon Valley and spent five years in an ashram as a brahmacharya (monk).