[3] He left home when still young to become a student of Upadhyay Amar Muni and the scholar of Tantra, Mahamohopadhyay Gopinath Kaviraj.
[5] He first gained fame through his skill as an astrologer but his rise to national prominence came as a result of his association with three Prime Ministers of India P. V. Narasimha Rao, Chandra Shekhar and V. P. Singh.
[6] Soon after P. V. Narasimha Rao became Prime Minister in 1991, Chandraswami built an ashram known as Vishwa Dharmayatan Sansathan in Delhi's Qutub Institutional Area.
Chandraswami is said to have dispensed spiritual advice to the Sultan of Brunei, Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Hosni Mubarak, Yasser Arafat, Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Richard Nixon, Margaret Thatcher, actress Elizabeth Taylor, arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi businessmen Tiny Rowland and Mohamed Al-Fayed and crime lord Dawood Ibrahim.
His loyal supporters include his secretary former BJP MLA Vikram Singh, Assistant Vijayraj Chauhan, the late Kailash Nath Aggarwal known as Mamaji.