Sankara Saranam

Author, poet, and philosopher; yogi, teacher, and rancher; guitarist, singer-songwriter, and recording artist, Sankara Saranam is the producer and host of the internet podcast Permanent Waves.

After four years as a monastic in the Self-Realization Swami Order of yogis, two years studying Hebrew in Israel and writing the book Yoga and Judaism, studying Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, and the classical guitar at the Manhattan School of Music, Sankara Saranam graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University as a student of Religious studies and Hebrew. He went on to complete his masters in Eastern texts and Sanskrit at St. John's College in Santa Fe.

Saranam is the author of the multi-award-winning, internationally published, and groundbreaking ""spiritual masterpiece,"" God Without Religion. He is also the author of the mystical science-fiction novel, Permanent Waves.

Saranam lives with his two children in Las Cruces, New Mexico.