Shri Vijay Kapoor took Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati as his guru at a family camp the very first year Swamiji came to the US. Later, Shri Kapoor was one of the pioneers to establish the 3 year course taught by Pujya Swamiji in Piercy, California, started in 1979. To attend this course, he left his job from marketing management in Hewlett-Packard and moved his entire family to live in Piercy. Shri Vijay Kapoor serves on the board of directors and officers of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam.