Pandurang Shastri Athavale

Pandurang Shastri Athavale (), yang juga dikenal sebagai Dadaji, yang artinya "kakak" dalam bahasa Marathi, adalah seorang filsuf, aktivis, pemimpin spiritual, revolusioner sosial dan reformis agama, yang mendirikan Swadhyaya Parivar (Keluarga Swadhyaya) pada 1954. Swadhyaya adalah sebuah proses studi sendiri yang berdasarkan pada Bhagavad Gita yang tersebar di hampir 100,000 desa di India, dengan lebih dari 120 juta pengikut. Ia juga dikenal karena kursus-kursusnya tentang Bhagavad Gita, Weda dan Upanishad.

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan 
 Vital Connections: Self, Society, God: Perspectives on Swadhyaya, by Raj Krishan Srivastava. 1998; Weatherhill, ISBN 0-8348-0408-5.
 Self-Development and Social Transformations?: The Vision and Practice of the Self-Study Mobilization of Swadhyaya, by Ananta Kumar Giri. Lexington Books. 2008. ISBN 0-7391-1198-1.
 Role of the swadhyaya parivar in socioeconomic changes among the tribals of Khedasan: A case study, by Vimal P Shah. Gujarat Institute of Development Research, 1998. ISBN 81-85820-53-8.
 Swadhyay Movement Living Religions: An Encyclopaedia of the World's Faiths, by Mary Pat Fisher. Published by I.B.Tauris, 1996. ISBN 1-86064-148-2, Page 109.
 Swadhyaya: A Movement Experience in India – August 2003 Visions of Development: Faith-based Initiatives, by Wendy Tyndale. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006. ISBN 0-7546-5623-3. Page 1.

Pranala luar 

 dadaji.net
 swadhyay.org
 Ramon magsaysay site introduction of Pandurang Shastri Athavale 
 Templeton award web-site referencing Pandurang Shastri Athavale's work
 An article by a well-known writer Suma Varughese 
 By WAVENEY ANN MOORE, Times Staff Writer © St. Petersburg Times, published  29 June 2002
 In rural India, quiet introspection has outward effects  By Chhavi Sachdev in Science & Theology News, July 2004

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