On my 7th birthday, in 1970, I left India and came to America: to this land of incredible opportunity.

I came in as a legal immigrant. My dad came first. We had to wait about a year.

Our ancient yogis and sages were not just medical healers, but systems scientists and systems engineers, who saw the body and the universe as an interconnected engineering system, a system of systems that are governed by fundamental engineering systems principles.

If you think about what the Postal Service fundamentally does, those guys are trained to get mail and sort mail - there's trust verification.

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

I discovered the foundations of Ayurveda and Siddha, and more importantly I found that all of Western control systems engineering principles had actually been discovered by the great ancient Indian sages, 5,000 years ago.