Shri Brahmananda's life was unique and brilliant, a life of great and tireless service and enormous accomplishment. He was a medical doctor, neurosurgeon, psychiatrist and professor of medicine. Shri Brahmananda was a gifted teacher and lecturer, a recognized authority on Yoga, Sanskrit and Vedanta. He is the author of "Fundamentals of Yoga", "The Textbook of Yoga Psychology" and "Self Analysis and Self-Knowledge", a translation and commentary on Shri Shankaracharya's Atma-Bodha.

Shri Brahmananda was a master of the Sanskrit Language. He used the power of Sanskrit to its fullest capacity by using Sanskrit chanting for psychosomatic healing and union with cosmic energy, or cosmic I Am.

He taught thousands of hours of intense study of Sanskrit grammar, from the study of the Devanagari alphabet up to the advanced grammar of Panini's "Ashtadhyayi".

Shri Brahmananda's life was dedicated to the integration of ancient & modern, Eastern and Western sciences, culture, and philosophy, with the intention to bring about the full realization of individual and universal peace, harmony and spiritual unity. His students at both Brahmananda and Ananda Ashrams continue on the same aims and spirit with which the ashrams were founded.