Welding Technology

Dr. N K Srinivasan was born in Chennai in 1943. He studied science at Vivekananda College, and later engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained a doctorate in engineering from Columbia University, New York. Thereafter, he served BARC, ISRO, PSG College of Technology and DRDO in various capacities. He has authored four technical books. Brought up in a deeply religious home, he learnt the scriptures under a vedic pundit, and later intensely studied the literature of Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi and Sri Ramakrishna. He practiced Transcendental Meditation for four years. After a traumatic experience in 1976, he was drawn to Paramahansa Yogananda and received initiation in Kriya Yoga from a monk of YSS/SRF, Ranchi and practiced it for nearly 15 years. Since 1983, he has been imperceptibly influenced by Shirdi Sai Baba. He is the founder-trustee of two charitable trusts - one for blind children and the other for Shirdi Sai Vedanta. Married and with three children, he devotes his time of Yoga, Reiki, Vedanta and Sai Prachar.