About Dr. Pillai
Dr. Baskaran Pillai is an international teacher, spiritual leader, humanitarian, and scholar-mystic from Southern India. Through his educational and humanitarian initiatives, Dr. Pillai’s mission is to alleviate human pain and suffering in all forms.
Dr. Pillai is an academic scholar, a philanthropist, a global educator, and an international leader dedicated to helping all people reach their highest potential.
He is emerging as the most progressive and innovative source of self-advancement knowledge, tools, and practices. Millions of people have already experienced significant improvements in their lives as a result of using his practices.
Dr. Pillai is the founder of the Pillai Center for Mind Science, an educational institution geared toward enhancing human intelligence and positively transforming every aspect of life. The Pillai Center offers courses on human development, particularly in the areas of health, prosperity, relationships, and spiritual evolution.
Dr. Pillai is also the founder of related educational programs, including Phonemic Intelligence, a program based on String Theory that enhances the brain through the use of pre-linguistic phonemes and promotes the understanding of the direct connection between basic sound units and intelligence., which develops sound-based media and education programs for youth, and Astroved.com Pvt Ltd., which focuses on the propagation of the Vedic sciences.
As founder of the non-profit Tripura Foundation, Dr. Pillai is committed to abolishing extreme poverty. For over 20 years, Tripura Foundation has built programs that seek to eradicate hunger and empower children and families to end the cycle of extreme poverty once and for all. Tripura Foundation focuses our programs primarily in India, in addition to operating smaller, targeted programs in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Dr. Pillai has been a speaker for the United Nations Conference of World Religions and the World Knowledge Forum and has hosted forums on religion and science. His scholarly background includes master’s degrees in English literature and comparative literature from Madurai University and a PhD in religious studies from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was both a teaching fellow in the Department of Religious Studies and Coordinator of Indian Studies program for the Department of International Studies.
He is the author of several books, including Life Changing Sounds: Tools from the Other Side, Miracles of the Avatar, and One Minute Guide to Prosperity and Enlightenment, and the DVD program The Grace Light. He was also editor of the Encyclopedia of Hinduism for the India Heritage Foundation.
Currently living in the United States with his wife Vasantha, Dr. Pillai spends much of his time in India and travels extensively around the world.