Born to pious Tamil speaking parents in the Southern Indian city of Hyderabad, H.H. Bhakti Vinoda Swami was nurtured like any other child born into a traditional Indian family. As a bright, intelligent pupil, His Holiness excelled in academics and extra-curricular activities at the Frank Anthony Public School, Bengaluru. He pursued engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy and then embarked on a successful career as a design engineer at Grindwell Norton Limited, Bengaluru.
While enrolling for his masters at IIT, Mumbai His Holiness became acquainted with the revolutionary book “Science of Self Realisation” written by H.D.G. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. Having became thoroughly enamoured by the tenets of Bhakti Yoga, His Holiness was overcome with the exigency to embrace this high philosophy as the very mood and mission of his life and thus he is summarily disengaged from worldly life, becoming a full time monk, assimilating, travelling and disseminating the timeless wisdom of the Vedas among the various echelons of the the human society at large. His Holiness has conducted more than 250 “Bhagavad Gita Interactive” workshops, 500 Srimad Bhagavatam capsules, 25 corporate retreats and close to 50 youth interactive programs.