Puri, Bhakti Madhava: - Bhakti Madhava Puri, Ph. D., is the Serving Director of the Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute. B.M. Puri earned his undergraduate degree at Rutgers University and completed a Masters and Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from Georgetown University in 1970. After completing postdoc work with the National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C., Dr. Puri moved on to rigorous study and practice of the Bhagavat Vedantic philosophy and Bhakti yoga. He was one of the five founding charter members of the original Bhaktivedanta Institute in 1976, and became the Regional Director of the office in Juhu, Mumbai, India for a number of years. After diving deeper into the study of the philosophical relation between Bhagavat Vedanta and Hegel's Conceptual Realism, Dr. Puri returned to the United States in the 1990's. He opened the Princeton BVISCS in 2012.