He is the author of a dozen books and over one hundred articles on the topic of yoga and spirituality, including Whispers from the Other Shore: Spiritual Search East and West, Yoga and the Teaching of Krishna, Pilgrim Without Boundaries, Centered Self Without Being Self-Centered: Remembering Krishnamurti, and The Spiritual Roots of Yoga.

Professor Ravindra has just completed his latest book, The Wisdom of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide which will be published in February 2009 by Morning Light Press.

He is a personal friend of the acclaimed yoga teacher, T.K.V. Desikachar, the son of the greatest yoga master of the 20th Century, Krishnamacharya, who was also the teacher of Sri Pattabhi Jois the guru of Ashtanga Yoga and B.K.S. Iyengar.

Ravi is much in demand as an international speaker, travels frequently during the year to many conferences and symposiums, and continues to write and also edits a series of books on spirituality and religion for Parabola Press.

Professor Ravindra was born in India and partly educated there. He has a B.Sc. and a Master of Technology degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Dalhousie University.

He held post-doctoral fellowships in Physics (University of Toronto), History and Philosophy of Science (Princeton University) and Religion (Columbia University).

He was a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton in 1977 in the School of Natural Sciences, and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla in 1978 and 1998.

He was the Founding Director of the Threshold Award for Integrative Knowledge, and chair of its international and interdisciplinary selection committees in 1979 and 1980.

He was appointed to the nine-member international Board of Judges for the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion for 1999-2001.

Professor Ravindra leads the Yoga Philosophy section of the yoga teacher training program.