# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ramesh-balsekar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:44:38.695Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ramesh-balsekar"
name: "Ramesh Balsekar"
slug: "ramesh-balsekar"
description: "Ramesh S. Balsekar was an Indian Advaita teacher and physical culturist. He was disciple and principal translator of Nisargadatta Maharaj, a renowned Advaita master. From early childhood, Balsekar was drawn to Advaita, a nondual teaching, particularly the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and Wei Wu Wei. He wrote more than 20 books, was president of the Bank of India, and received guests daily in his home in Mumbai until shortly before his death in 2009."
tagline: "Indian guru (1917–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ramesh1999.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-05-25"
deathDate: "2009-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.789385333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "راميش بالسكار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Balsekar"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Balsekar"
    title: "Ramesh Balsekar"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Balsekar"
    title: "Ramesh Balsekar"
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    title: "Рамеш Балсекар"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Balsekar"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump