About the Trust

The Hari Prasad Shastri Charitable Trust was established in 1967 to manage the residual estate of Dr Hari Prasad Shastri in accordance with his wishes to promulgate a love of learning and the welfare of all through spiritual education and education generally.

Dr Hari Prasad Shastri was an acharya (teacher) in a direct line of teachers of the classical Yoga of Self-Knowledge (Adhyatma Yoga) as taught in the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. A gifted Sanskrit scholar, with a deep knowledge of both eastern and western philosophy, he dedicated his life to bringing this spiritual truth to others. He taught in India, Japan and China and in 1933 he founded Shanti Sadan in London.

Before Dr Shastri died in 1956 he appointed Dr A. M. Halliday as a trustee of his residual estate and also named him as his future successor. Two books of Dr Halliday’s lectures have been published by the Trust

The Trust is funded through return on investments of both the residual estate and amounts bequeathed to the Trust by devoted pupils of Dr Shastri.

^{The Hari Prasad Shastri Charitable Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales – No 254532}