Swami Ram Charran is the spiritual head of the Jyotish Ashram and Hindu Learning Center.

His lineage is traced back to a small village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh prior to the period of indenture-ship and transmigration to the colony of British Guiana.

He was born and raised in a Brahman family in the County of Berbice and even in his early years, he always expressed an interest in a deeper understanding of the mysteries of the universe.

As a child, he listened to teachings of the two famous Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Bhagavad Gita and tried to read any literature about Vedic philosophy on which he could lay his hands. In his early twenties, he emigrated to the United States of America and commenced studies in the Science of Physics at the City College of New York State University.

Through the works of scientists such as Fritjof Capra and writings such as The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Swami Ram began to make the link between the Physical Sciences and the Vedic Scriptures. Swami Ram began to see the relationship between the dancing atomic particles and the dancing Nata Raja. He began to see the relationship between the seven visible colours in sunlight that was discovered by Sir Isaac Newton and the illustration of the seven horses that drew the chariot of the Sun God Surya Devta, a picture which is thousands of years old. He also saw the relationship between the planets and the Nav-grahas of the Vedic Scriptures. Intrigued with this connection between what was written in the Vedic scriptures thousands of years ago and the confirmation of what modern scientists are now finding, Swami Ram left the prestigious learning environment of the world renowned university and joined the simple life of the yogis amidst natural settings at the Siddha Meditation Ashram in the Catskill Mountains. There he pursued a rigorous discipline of learning, devotional service and spiritual development.