See Vedic Wisdom has been here since time immemorial. There is no fixed time as to when the knowledge began or started. It was not started by any one person alone. It was something that people got when they went deep into meditation.
Many Rishis meditated and when they meditated they heard something in the deep silence. Whatever they heard, they started saying it and asked somebody to note it down. This was then passed down from person to person by word of mouth - The Oral Tradition.
The gift Of Silence: Even though Param Poojya Gurudev was travelling teaching meditation and delivering talks and lectures to many HE felt that something more was required to truly make a difference in people s lives. In early 1982 When HE went into ten days of silence at the small temple in Shimoga Poojya Gurudev emerged from this with the Sudarshan Kriya which Poojya Gurudev began to teach in a programme that came to be known as The Art Of Living. HE was twenty-six years then and this was HIS gift to humanity