Equipped with a state of the art laboratory, a library and a botanical garden containing rare ayurvedic herbs, the institute is working on unique projects such as Yagyopathy, Ayurveda and Vedic mantras Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya established the Institute as a center for inter communion of science and spirituality, where interrelation between these two aspects is studied.

The prime aim of setting up this Institute is to establish the ancient Indian Yogic Philosophy as the science and art of living.

[1] The Institute is dedicated to the integration of modern and ancient Indian sciences in a practical way motivated by the goal of health and happiness for all.

[citation needed] The Institute has been conducting scientific experiments to investigate the effects of Ayurveda and herbal medicine, yog sadhana, yajna, gayatri-sadhana and panch karma, on different bodily and mental functions.

The subjects (experimental and the control groups) are the trainees of the sadhana programmes/camps of spiritual refinement and personality development organized regularly at Shantikunj.