# Prem Saran Satsangi

Prem Saran Satsangi (born 9 March 1937) is the current sant satguru of Radha Soami Sect, Dayalbagh or Radhasoami Satsang Dayalbagh who succeeded Param Guru Lal Sahab, seventh Sant Satguru in 2003.
He is also the founder and first president of the System Society of India, a professional body of system scientists. He holds the Emeritus Chair from the East of the Integrated East-West Forum at The Science of Consciousness Conferences since 2012. He is the Chairman of Advisory Committee on Education (ACE), Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed to be University).

## Birth

He was born on the campus of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi on the day of Indian festival of Holi on 9 March 1937, to Krishna Kumar, a Professor of Botany at Agriculture College, Banaras Hindu University and Bhakt Saheli.

## Education and early career

He studied electrical engineering at the Banaras Hindu University At present Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi and graduated in 1957.
He was initiated into Radhasoami Faith on 13 February 1958. In 1960 he accepted a scholarship at Michigan State University where he received his M.S. in Electrical engineering in 1961. The USAID extended his fellowship for PhD, but Satsangi declined the offer and returned to India in July 1961. He got an appointment as Reader in Electrical Engineering at MBM Engineering College and was appointed to the faculty in 1964.
He, thereafter joined the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1964. In the initial years, he taught basic network theory (analysis and synthesis), control theory and electric traction courses. He served as Assistant Professor for 8 years, Associate Professor in 1972 and Professor of Electrical engineering in 1973.
He was selected for a Canadian Commonwealth Research Fellowship award. He secured admission as a doctoral candidate at the University of Waterloo with research supervisor Jack B. Ellis in the research field of socio-economic systems.
In the summer of 1970, he went to the University of Waterloo as a post doctoral fellow for three months for joint research assignment with the Department of Systems design engineering and Man-environment studies. During the period, he completed his PhD dissertation in the form of relevant papers. He also attended a short summer course at MIT on transport systems.

## Dayalbagh (1993–2002)

He left IIT Delhi in May 1993 to join the Dayalbagh Educational Institute as its director. He became the member of Radhasoami Satsang Sabha in 1993. During the 1990s, he was involved in education and research in intelligent systems engineering applications to large and complex systems by invoking soft computing techniques and published several papers and produced a number of doctoral theses.
He held the office of Director of Dayalbagh Educational Institute for almost nine years. His primary duties involved academic administration, although he continued participating in systems science research and practice.
He is involved in the research of systemic education and experiences related to material, energy, information, mind, intellect, emotion and the science of spiritual consciousness transcending the one in ancient India and the recent advances in neurophysiology and cognitive psychology.

## As Vaqt Sant Satguru (2003-Present)

On 18th May 2003, a gathering in Dayalbagh of about 25000 representatives of about half a million Followers of Radhasoami Satsang Dayalbagh, from all over India and abroad Acclaimed Prem Saran Satsangi Sahab as the Eighth Vaqt Sant Satguru (Eighth Spiritual Leader) of the Faith. As a Sant Satguru, he preaches the teachings of Sant Mat and initiates thousands of his eligible followers into Surat Shabd Yoga. Under his guidance, Radhasoami Satsang Sabha, initiated the Murar Declaration on 13 June 2010, for forging unity among different Radhasoami communities.
He believes that the theory of spiritual systems is fully consistent with the latest theory of everything of the Physical Universe.

## Radhasoami Satsang Dayalbagh

Located at: Dayalbagh, Agra. Lineage: Shiv Dayal Singh (Soami Ji Maharaj)- Salig Ram(Huzur Maharaj)— Brahm Shankar Misra(Maharaj Sahab) — Kamta Prasad Sinha(Sarkar Sahab) — Anand Swarup (Sahab Ji Maharaj, Founder of Dayalbagh) — Gurcharan Das Mehta(Mehta Ji Maharaj) — Makund Behari Lal(Lal Sahab) — Prem Saran Satsangi(Satsangi Sahab). Dayalbagh was founded by Anand Swarup, Kt. The present Guru Prem Saran Satsangi is an emeritus professor, physicist and system scientist of IIT Delhi. The 200th birth anniversary of Shiv Dayal Singh was celebrated in Dayalbagh from August 2017 to 24 August 2018.

## Family

Satsangi sahab got married on 11 November 1958 (Deepavali) to P.Bn. Satyavati and they have 2 daughters, Prem Pyari and Dayal Pyari, who are both married.

## Research papers

Satsangi has published 90 research papers and has attended several national and international conferences. His major contributions are in the field of Applied systems engineering including socio-economic systems such as transportation and energy systems.