Born in tradition filled middle class family in Nellai district of Tamilnadu, Ashvath Shanker had spent more than three decades of his lifetime in researching various cults and practices.

Though astrology was NOT a common practice in his family, Ashvath Shanker wanted to learn more intricacies in astrology, after a long search he met Shri Venkata Subramaniya Iyer of Ettaiapuram and took him as his guru and learnt all ins and outs of traditional astrology.

After learning traditional Astrology he was always thinking about problems which was common and didn’t have any strong solutions, this made him to study further on this.

At this juncture he met Shri Mystic Selvam a renowned writer and researcher. Along with him he visited many temples, sadhus, sidhars and jeevasamadis. He spent most of his time at Tanjavur Saraswathi Mahal and Kerala University in studying about various religious practices.