at St. Philomena's College, Mysore in 1968[1] He then chose the avocation of priesthood and approached the ecclesiastical office of the India Evangelical Lutheran Church in which he became an aspirante.

[8] After a 3-year course in spirituality, Rajashekar was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity[1] degree by the University during its convocation held in 1972 during the Registrarship of Chetti Devasahayam, CBCNC.

In 1972, Rajashekar proceeded to the United States to pursue a postgraduate course in theology leading to S.T.M., specializing in Patristics[1] during 1972-1974 at the Concordia Seminary, St. Louis and left for India to begin teaching at the Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, Chennai and returned to the United States in 1976 to enroll as a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa, Iowa where he researched in Systematic theology and History of Religions with a dissertation titled Faith Active in Love and Truth Realized in Love: A Comparative Study of the Ethics of Martin Luther and Mahatma Gandhi[9] and was awarded a Ph.

In 1974, Rajashekar began to teach at the Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, Chennai in which the IELC is a participating Church Society.

[1] From 1984[1] through 1991, Rajashekar was on the staff of the Lutheran World Federation based at Geneva, Switzerland, and made a significant contribution as Executive Secretary[12] for Dialogue with People of other Faiths and Ideologies.