Prem Saran Satsangi is the eighth and current Sant Satguru of Radhasoami Faith, Dayalbagh. He holds the Emeritus Chair from the East of the Integrated East-West Forum at The Science of Consciousness Conferences since 2012. He is the chairman of Advisory Committee on Education,

Dayalbagh Educational Institute Dayalbagh Educational Institute (DEI) is an educational institution located at Dayalbagh in Agra. The institute has been given deemed university status by the University Grants Commission of India in 1981. History Founded as a primary scho ...

Birth

He was born on the campus of

Banaras Hindu University Banaras Hindu University (BHU) IAST: kāśī hindū viśvavidyālaya IPA: /kaːʃiː hɪnd̪uː ʋɪʃwəʋid̪jaːləj/), is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916 ...

Varanasi Varanasi (; ; also Banaras or Benares (; ), and Kashi.) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. * * * * The city has a syncretic t ...

on the day of Indian festival of

Holi Holi (), also known as the Festival of Colours, the Festival of Spring, and the Festival of Love,The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) p. 874 "Holi /'həʊli:/ noun a Hindu spring festival ...". is an ancient Hindu religious festival ...

on 9 March 1937, to Krishna Kumar, a Professor of Botany at Agriculture College, Banaras Hindu University and Bhakt Saheli.

Education and early career

He studied

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

at the Banaras Hindu University At present Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi and graduated in 1957. In 1960 he accepted a scholarship at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

where he received his M.S. in Electrical engineering in 1961. The

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extended his fellowship for Ph.D., but Satsangi declined the offer and returned to India in July 1961. He got an appointment as Reader in Electrical Engineering at

MBM Engineering College M.B.M. University (Mugneeram Bangur Memorial University) is a state government-owned autonomous public university in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. In September 2021, M.B.M. Engineering College, which is one of the oldest engineering colleges in Ind ...

and was appointed to the faculty in 1964. He, thereafter joined the

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is a public institute of technology located in New Delhi, India. It is one of the 23 IITs created to be Centres of Excellence for training, research and development in science, engineering and technolo ...

in 1964,. In the initial years, he taught basic network theory (analysis and synthesis), control theory and electric traction courses. He served as Assistant Professor for 8 years, Associate Professor in 1972 and Professor of Electrical engineering in 1973. He was selected for a Canadian Commonwealth Research Fellowship award. He secured admission as a doctoral candidate at the

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with research supervisor Jack B. Ellis in the research field of socio-economic systems. In the summer of 1970, he went to the University of Waterloo as a post doctoral fellow for three months for joint research assignment with the Department of Systems design engineering and Man-environment studies. During the period, he completed his Ph.D. dissertation in the form of relevant papers. He also attended a short summer course at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

transport system A transport network, or transportation network, is a network or graph in geographic space, describing an infrastructure that permits and constrains movement or flow. Examples include but are not limited to road networks, railways, air routes, ...

Dayalbagh (1993–present)

He left IIT Delhi in May 1993 to join the Dayalbagh Educational Institute as its director. During the 1990s, he was involved in education and research in intelligent

systems engineering Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their enterprise life cycle, life cycles. At its core, systems engineering util ...

applications to large and complex systems by invoking soft computing techniques and published several papers and produced a number of doctoral theses. He held the office of Director of Dayalbagh Educational Institute for almost nine years. His primary duties involved academic administration, although he continued participating in systems science research and practice. He is involved in the research of systemic education and experiences related to material, energy, information, mind, intellect, emotion and the science of spiritual consciousness transcending the one in ancient India and the recent advances in

neurophysiology Neurophysiology is a branch of physiology and neuroscience that studies nervous system function rather than nervous system architecture. This area aids in the diagnosis and monitoring of neurological diseases. Historically, it has been dominated b ...

and

cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...

Spiritualism

He was initiated into Radhasoami Faith on 13 February 1958. He became the member of Radhasoami Satsang Sabha in 1993. In May 2003, Satsangi was unanimously acclaimed as the 8th Revered Leader of the

Radhasoami Radha Soami is a spiritual tradition founded by Shiv Dayal Singh in 1861 on Basant Panchami Day in Agra, India. p. 90 note 5, Quote: "The date of Seth Shiv Dayal's first public discourse is Basant Panchami Day, February 15, 1861"., Quote: " ...

Faith. Under his guidance, Radhasoami Satsang Sabha, initiated the Murar Declaration on 13 June 2010, for forging unity among different

communities. He believes that the theory of spiritual systems is fully consistent with the latest theory of everything of the Physical Universe.

Family

Satsangi married on 11 November 1958 (Deepavali) to P.Bn. Satyavati and they had 2 daughters, Prem Pyari and Dayal Pyari, who are both married.

Research papers

Satsangi has published 90 research papers and has attended several national and international conferences. His major contributions are in the field of Applied systems engineering including socio-economic systems such as transportation and energy systems.https://www.rscircle.com/pdf/Gracious_Huzur_Professor_Prem_Saran_Satsangi.pdf

References

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