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He completed his doctoral research [PhD] in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, from The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai in 1979, with Prof. C.S. Warke as his thesis advisor. Thereafter for two and a half years he was in what was then West-Germany, at The Institute for Theoretical Physics, at the University of Frankfurt as an Alexander Von Humboldt post-doctoral research-fellow till late 1982; working here with Prof. Walter Greiner and Prof. C.S. Warke as his mentors and collaborators. His research work, for this period of a decade [1972-1982] was published in the form of ten papers in the best International journals in the field of Theoretical Nuclear Physics. There was for him, at this stage in his philosophical development an unmistakable inner call to enter into the spiritual sphere of Dharma, moving away in this process from his decade long academic pursuits. He went back to his beloved Master and philosopher - friend, Sri Sri Bhagavan.

In the early 1970s, in attempting to cope with a highly competitive modern world, in which no one paid any attention to the spiritual well-being of individuals, he underwent a radical change of heart, whereby his spiritual life and the aspirations of his deeper-self, took precedence over all other survival concerns. He was able to tide over this crisis - which was one of conflict between the spiritual-aspirations of the deeper-self on the one hand and bread & butter concerns of a mundane world on the other - by taking to heart, the teachings of the Master Sri J.Krishnamurti, for this is what he was asked to do by his philosopher - friend Sri Sri Bhagavan.

In his family archives, he has about fifty personal letters written by the world-teacher Sri J. Krishnamurti to his late mother, who had the privilege of not only knowing the great Master personally since her early childhood, but also of translating a number of his works into her mother tongue, the Telugu language. His late father was a labour-lawyer with a humanitarian and Marxist approach to life. Sankara Bhagavadpada is a house-holder, living with his wife & only daughter in the out-skirts of Chennai.