Born in Sirsi, North Karnataka in 1949, Raghunandan Trikannad completed his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from Regional Engineering College Warangal, Andhra Pradesh. He was introduced to Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Swami Vivekananda in his teens. During his professional studies, he came in contact with Swami Ranganatha-nanda, the President Ramakrishna Math at Secunderabad (and later the thirteenth President of Ramakrishna Order, Belur, West Bengal), who inspired him to take to life spiritual. He joined Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari in 1976, and shouldered the responsibilities as its Zonal Organiser, Organising Secretary and Joint General Secretary. Since 1989 he is Secretary of Ramarpan Educational Society.
