Dr. Vivek Kaul
Founder & Chairman GSAF
Dr Vivek Kaul was born in Jammu & Kashmir state. He did his schooling & pre-medical education in Srinagar, Kashmir. His father was Chief Engineer in the power development department & mother was head of the department in Hindi at Kashmir University. Dr. Kaul did his medicine from Osmanian Medical College & Masters in Surgery from Bombay University. He was selected as a Senior Resident in Surgery at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
He left for the United Kingdom in 1996 & worked as a Surgeon at Brighton & Sussex University Hospital.
Dr. Kaul & his fellow Hindus had to unfortunately leave Kashmir in 1990 when conditions became unbearable for them to live there due to religious-based violence unleashed on them by the terrorists.
Dr. Kaul was named Vivek by Swami Ranganathnanda of Rama Krishna Mission. Vivek has been a keen student of Swami Vivekananda’s vision of Sanatan Dharma. The organizational & religious structure of Sanatan Dharma has been Dr. Kaul’s lifelong pursuit. He has spent 40 years trying to understand the divisions among the Sanatan Dharma. His life mission is to unite Sanatan Dharma under an unified organisation which will look after the needs of all especially the poor & make their life better , purposeful .
Dr. Kaul wants to devote his life for the greater good of Sanatan Dharma .
Dr Kaul has teamed up with Dr Chokshi to serve Sanatan Dharma in all its sincerity & devotion .
Dr.Atul Chokshi
Co- founder & Co- Chairman GSAF
Born in Ahmedabad, India, Dr Chokshi completed his medical studies securing six Gold medals during his undergraduate and post graduate career. After the completion of his medical training he migrated to USA and received advanced training in the field of Interventional Cardiology. He ran a very busy and a successful practice for more than three decades in New York.
Besides being a brilliant and a successful cardiologist, Dr.Chokshi is an ardent student of the Bhagavad Geeta since 1991. He studied Bhagavad Geeta with the same sincerity as he studied Cardiolgy which resulted in him knowing all 700 verses of Geeta by heart. He then wanted to put these teachings to work to serve the nation. Thus inspired by the teachings of Geeta he with his 108 dedicated friends, established the first state of the art cardiac Center in Ahmedabad which was commissioned on 3/25/2000. In the decade that followed, the center was instrumental in saving thousands of lives.
Since his retierment, Dr Chokshi’s mission is to spread the teachings of Geeta. He wants to spred the teachings of Geeta in simple English especially for the younger generation. For this purpose he has authored a smaller version of Geeta with 36 of the best verses from Geeta a “Chhattis Shloki Geeta” which was published in 2018. He regularly conducts Geeta classes and has delivered dozens of lectures on the teachings of Geeta.
His life mission is to preserve and promote Sanatan Dharma. With the like minded dedicated Sanatanis like Dr Vivek Kaul and others, he has started working to make a strong team to serve the people in need putting his own resources and gathering moral and financial support from the global community.