Our Jagannatha Vallabha Vedic Research Center is open to all scholars and researchers who wish to work for the spreading of the Jagannatha culture.

Its aims and objectives are:

1.to translate, produce and publish classical literature from the Vedic tradition and in pursuance of the Vedic tradition, and to distribute such publications to the largest possible number of people,

2. to organize courses and seminars so that a greater number of people can obtain benefit by the eternal and universal knowledge transmitted by the ancient sages of India.

The Jagannatha Vallabha Vedic Research Center makes no artificial discriminations based on gender, race, nationality, caste, or social position. We only require our members to seriously follow dharmic principles in their personal lives and to respect sincerity in the pursuit of knowledge.

If you want to become a member of our Research Center, please submit your request in writing to these email addresses: jagannathavallabha@rediffmail.com, dharmacharini@yahoo.net.

Here below is a brief presentation of our current members:

Ardent devotee of Jagannatha and Vedic scholar himself, Rahul Acharya belongs to the family of the Raj Gurus of Lord Jagannatha in Puri. He has studied with his cousin Pandit Rabinarayana Rathasharma, the illustrious son of Padmashree Pandit Sadashiv Rathsharma.

Trained in yoga, Rahul presently researches on Jagannath culture, specifically on classical Odissi dance as a temple ritual and expression of religious sentiment.

Rahul is also a famous soloist in Odissi dance, and he has performed in major national and international dance festivals, and in programmes in Mauritius, Reunion, France, Germany, UK, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Malasya etc, and is currently an empanelled artist of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.

Raghunath Mohapatra is the son of Jagannath Mohapatra of the Sri Purushottampur village, sasana brahmana in the Mukti mandapa of Sri Jagannatha temple at Puri.

His research field in Vedic tradition is especially in the promotion of evironment protection, agriculture, education, social work and cooperation, rural development, and professional training.

Graduated in Education with honors, he also studied Economics and the history of the Freedom Movement in India. At present he is developing a legal consultancy programme for Hindu organisations and temple administrations in Puri, Orissa.

Raghunath is in charge of the Bhaktivedanta Sikshya Niketana Vidyalaya, the Oriya-English medium school with Hindu orientation founded in 2006 at Piteipur, Puri, at the Jagannatha Vallabha project.

Rajarani Devi (Michela Forlivesi) is a teacher of integrated yoga and Odissi dance, personal development and karmic therapy.

Besides her personal studies on Western philosophy, she has studied under various teachers the sciences of Kundalini yoga and Hatha yoga. She also offers individual coaching and consulting, cooperating with several cultural centers and associations, and dividing her time and work between Orissa (India) and Italy, where she has a number of students among people of all ages and walks of life.

Her Ph D thesis in Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy (for which she was awarded honors) was on the subject of the philosophical meaning of Odissi dance, particularly in relation with the Jagannatha culture.

Riccardo Misto: musician, musicologist and music therapist, he is a disciple of the famous Vemu Mukunda, the pioneer teacher of Nada Yoga who taught at global level..

For several years Riccardo has been researching on the subtle powers of sound and their benefits on body, mind and spirit, drawing parallels between the Vedic culture of mantras, the ancient European culture of the sacred sounds and the Shamanic Overtone Singing of the the Altai - Tuvan - Mongolian region, studied by David Hykes in the United States.

Riccardo has also researched the parallel between the traditions of yoga, alchemy, and the Pythagorean tradition.

He lives and works in Italy, where he is founding the Cultural Center ARMON.