Sep 15, 2023, 06:55 PM IST

IIT graduates who became saints

Riddhima Kanetkar

Gauranga Das completed his BTech in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Bombay from 1989 to 1993

In 1993, he joined ISKCON as a monk. He is the Divisional Director of ISKCON (Govardhan Ecovillage) Mumbai, Maharashtra

Swami Mukundananada completed his BTech from IIT Delhi and received his postgraduate degree from IIM Calcutta

He is now a spiritual leader, best-selling author, Vedic scholar, and leader on mind management

Rasanath Das is an IIT and Cornell University alumnus. He earned his undergraduate degree from IIT and a postgraduate degree at Cornell University

Sanket Parekh is an IIT Bombay alumnus with a degree in chemical engineering. He had plans of pursuing a post-graduate course in the US but he gave it all up and became a Jain monk

Aviral Jain studied at IIT BHU in computer engineering and later transformed his profession from being a computer engineer to a monk