"People sought her help for all sorts of ailments. She would prescribe personalised medicine, which included particular herbs, particular massage, and mantras. I saw many people being healed by her, and as a child I was inspired to become a healer," he says.

Mumbai-born Ayyadurai, who left with his family at the age of seven to live in the US, came back to India in 2007 to study Indian medicine with the aim of discovering the Rosetta Stone that connected the worlds of Ayurveda and Siddha with modern scientific principles.

"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," he claims.

Ayyadurai observed that the terminology of Ayurveda and Siddha such as Vata, Pitta, Kapha, etc. Have a direct one-to-one correlation to the terminology used in control systems engineering.

"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," he says.

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