Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian activist, philosopher, and spiritual leader (died 2003)

Pandurang Shastri Athavale

Indian philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer

Pandurang Shastri Athavale, also known as Dada /Dadaji, was an Indian activist, philosopher, spiritual leader, social revolutionary, and religion reformist, who founded the Swadhyaya Parivar in 1954. Swadhyaya is a self-study process based on the Bhagavad Gita which has spread…