[citation needed] He was born in a Maithil Brahmin family[3] He later got inspired by reading the Bhagavad Gita, he left home at the age of thirteen and went to Varanasi.

[5] In the late 1970s, Dhirendra Brahmachari promoted the benefits of yoga in a weekly program called Yogabhyaas which was broadcast on Doordarshan, the state-owned television network.

[citation needed] His ashram at Mantalai is spread over 1008 kanals of land with private airstrips, hangar, a zoo and a seven storey building in gandhi nagar, Jammu.

[citation needed] Dhirendra was charged with buying an aircraft in the United States during the Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and smuggling it into the country without paying customs duties, but he was never tried.

[5] Dhirendra Brahmachari died in a plane crash, along with his pilot, when they hit a pine tree on 9 June 1994, while landing at the airstrip of his religious retreat and yoga school in Mantalai, a village in Chenani Tehsil in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir (state).