Sri Satyam Upadrashta hails from a Vedic family. He previously served on the board of directors of the First International Vedic Conference in New York and as Vice President of Hindu Temple in Kansas City. With Pujya Sri Swamiji's blessings and instructions, Sri Upadrashta gives Bhagavad Gita Lecture Series at Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple.

• Sri Upadrashta gave lectures on Bhagavad-Gita to the Indian community in Evansville, Indiana, and performed invocation and benediction services with Vedic Hymns at the University of Missouri's (Kansas City) Commencement Program.
• With Pujya Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji's blessings, he conducted Vedanta workshops at DRC in West Sunbury and served as coordinator of Spiritual Conference during Sri Swamiji's 60th birthday celebrations in Mysuru.
• Satyam is a Pharmaceutical Scientist by profession and most recently served as Senior Director at Takeda Pharmaceutical Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• He received many awards for his professional contributions including Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the Indian Pharmaceutical Association's President Award.

Sri Adi Sankara or Sri Sankaracharya was born when Hinduism as a religion was in utter chaos. The multiplicity of religious practices saw the rise of many cults all claiming to be the real Hinduism. The real Hinduism or the Sanatan Dharma was passing through a difficult phase. With vedic tradition under attack, it was Sankaracharya’s genius that reinvented Hinduism and re-established the vedic tradition with his excellent commentaries on Brahmasutras, Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita.

It was his period that saw the re-emergence of Hinduism. The basic contribution of Sankaracharya was his brilliant explanation of the Indian philosophical thought and his concept of advait or non-dualism that tends to give a unique position to Hinduism among a pantheon of religions.