Dr. K. Sadananda is a Material Scientist by profession. He worked at United States Naval Research Laboratory as Head of Deformation and Fracture, and has published extensively in Science; he has received many awards. He retired in 2005 and now works as a private consultant in the United States for six months in a year. He was also a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is a disciple of Swami Chinmayananda, was a founding trustee of the Chinmaya Mission’s Washington Regional Center as well as Shree Siva Vishnu Temple, Maryland, USA. He served as Secretary and Treasurer of SEVA, Inc., a philanthropic organization formed around 1980 by Chinmaya Mission, to fund projects in India and elsewhere. Currently, he is an Acharya or spiritual teacher of Chinmaya Mission and splits his time between the USA and India. Advaita Academy has been sponsoring many of his talks on Vedanta and has made them available on Youtube under the keywords Acharya Sadaji.