H.V. Shivadas

Sri Hariharan Veer Sivadasa (Dr. A.R. Guagliardo, D.Div.), was born in 1957 of a Scottish father and Indian mother. Orphaned as an infant after his parents death, he was adopted raised Roman Catholic in Tampa, Florida. After completing bachelor's and master's studies in social psychology, ancient history and comparative religion at the University of South Florida, City Colleges of Chicago, University of Maryland, and Fordham University in New York, he received his Doctorate of Divinity from Mar Tomas Malankar Orthodox Seminary in 1979. After serving as a priest and an Air Force Chaplain for seven years, he traveled to India embraced Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism), the spiritual path of his maternal ancestors, studying Adi Shankara's Advaitin philosophy and taking initiation from his late guru, Sri Sharadhananda Bharati. He has worked as a newspaper and magazine editor, authored several books, served as CEO/Temple Manager, Pujari and religious studies instructor for the Hindu Temple of Georgia, served as Director of Operations for the Atlanta based Gandhi Foundation USA, and worked as a counselor and certified hypnotherapist. After many years of dharmic studies and experience, Sri Sivadasji established the Dharmic Arts Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching and promoting Dharma and dharmic living. He recently relocated from Atlanta to New Orleans to establish the Chandrasekhara Dharma Center of New Orleans.