Life and Cognition at the Intersection of Science, Philosophy, and Religion

Dr. B. M. Purī is the Serving Director of the Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit educational organization in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He earned his undergraduate degree at Rutgers University and completed a Masters and Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from Georgetown University in 1970. After completing postdoc work with the National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C., Dr. Puri moved on to rigorous study and practice of the Bhagavat Vedantic philosophy and Bhakti yoga.He was one of the five founding charter members of the original Bhaktivedanta Institute in 1976, and became the Regional Director of the office in Juhu, Mumbai, India for a number of years. After diving deeper into the study of the philosophical relation between Bhagavat Vedanta and Hegel's Conceptual Realism, Dr. Puri returned to the United States in the 1990's. He opened the Princeton BVISCS in 2012.Some of his earlier work can be seen in the Bhaktivedanta Institute Bulletin series (1980-1982). An abundance of more recent work can be seen on ResearchGate and on PhilPeople (links under photo to the left). Dr. Puri is the inspiration behind the Sadhu-Sanga Google Group which has been an active forum for the discussion of consciousness studies among many scientists and academics since 2008, as well as the Science & Scientist International Conference Series since 2013.

Serving Assistant of Dr. B. M. Purī and researcher at the Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute.