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Pandurang Shastri Athavale

Indian philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer (1920–2003)

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Lived 1920–2003, aged 83India
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    1920–2003
    Aged 83
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Updated 2026-06-14

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 across nearly 100,000 villages in India, Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and other Asian countries with five million adherents. Noted for his discourses on the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas and the Upanishads.

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