Dr. Raju

Dr.K.S.Sripada Raju was one of founders of the Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment and its spiritual head. Dr.Raju was a devoted teacher, scholar, and priest. Dr. Raju completed his bachelor’s degree in Vedic religious studies and Economics in India and thereafter completed his doctorate at Michigan State University.

Dr. Raju shared his profound knowledge of God with all though his profound knowledge of the Hindu teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Yoga, the Vedas and meditation to enrich many communities in Michigan, Hawaii, and across the United States of America and the World.  

The Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment continue to follow his teachings and traditions that he established to conduct daily and weekly prayer services, religious seminars, visiting guest lectures, interfaith discussion groups and humanitarian service related community events.