Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Pandurang Shastri Athavale , also known as Dadaji, which literally translates as elder brother in Marathi, was an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, social activist and Hinduism reformist, who founded the Swadhyaya Parivar in 1954. Swadhyaya is a selfstudy process based on the Bhagavad Gita which has spread across nearly 100,000 villages in India, with overmillion adherents. He was also noted for his discourses on the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas and the Upanishads.
Pandurang Vaijnath Athavale was born onOctober 1920 in the village of Roha in Maharashra India. He was one of five children born to the Sanskrit teacher Vaijanath Athavale and his wife Parvati Athavale.
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