Pandurang Shastri Athavale
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==Swadhyaya Parivar== ==Swadhyaya Parivar==
<!-- THIS IS AN IMAGE FILE PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES IN IT IT WILL GET DELETED, THANKS! -->[[File:Pandurang Shastri Athavale-Templeton Prize 1997.jpg|right|upright=1.0|thumb|Pandurang Shastri Athavale receiving the [[Templeton Prize]] for Progress in Religion, from [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]] at a public ceremony held in [[Westminster Abbey]], 6 May 1997{{Deletable file-caption|Friday, 10 April 2026|F7}}]] The philosophy of original Vedic Dharma is the base of this movement. The philosophy of original Vedic Dharma is the base of this movement. [[Swadhyaya Parivar]] established itself in India in 1978 with adherents meeting every Sunday, where prayers are sung and a video recording of Athavale teaching about the Vedic dharma is played.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Diwanji|first1=Amberish K.|title=Applause and abuse as Athavale is awarded the Templeton prize|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/may/08swad.htm|access-date=2 May 2017|work=Rediff.com|date=8 May 1997}}</ref> Swadhyaya, which closely translates to "study of the self" is a process based upon Vedic philosophy, and the members of the Parivar are called "Swadhyayees". Over the years, Athavale's followers have taken the Bhagavad Gita's concepts of Indwelling God and God's universal love to millions of people, transcending caste, socioeconomic barriers, and religious differences. Athavale personally visited tens of thousands of villages (on foot and rented bicycles), and his brothers and sisters (''Swadhyayees'') personally go house to house to establish selfless relationships with families and spread the Gita's teachers. Adherents have followed suit to roughly 100,000 villages across India, and at least 34 nations across the globe. In these villages, Athavale started various experiments (''Prayogs'') to impart social activism by means of a god-centric devotion, including cooperative farming, fishing and tree-planting projects in the spirit of collective, divine labour (''Bhakti''), somewhat similar to the [[Antigonish Movement]] in Canada. Swadhyayees aim to fulfill Athavale's vision of eradicating the world's problems by creating a global family united under the principle of a universal blood maker. He felt that the universality of the Bhagavad Gita allows for it to a guide to all of humanity. As such, its thoughts should reach unto the last person. Today, the millions of adherents can be found on every habitable continent in over 35 countries including the Caribbean, Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and Africa. It is the Swadhyaya Parivar's mission to complete Rev. Athavale's vision of a ''"Universal Brotherhood under the Divine Fatherhood of God."''<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E3DB1230F935A35750C0A961958260 Leader of Spiritual Movement Wins $1.2 Million Religion Prize] ''[[The New York Times]]'', 6 March 1997.</ref> [[Swadhyaya Parivar]] established itself in India in 1978 with adherents meeting every Sunday, where prayers are sung and a video recording of Athavale teaching about the Vedic dharma is played.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Diwanji|first1=Amberish K.|title=Applause and abuse as Athavale is awarded the Templeton prize|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/may/08swad.htm|access-date=2 May 2017|work=Rediff.com|date=8 May 1997}}</ref> Swadhyaya, which closely translates to "study of the self" is a process based upon Vedic philosophy, and the members of the Parivar are called "Swadhyayees". Over the years, Athavale's followers have taken the Bhagavad Gita's concepts of Indwelling God and God's universal love to millions of people, transcending caste, socioeconomic barriers, and religious differences. Athavale personally visited tens of thousands of villages (on foot and rented bicycles), and his brothers and sisters (''Swadhyayees'') personally go house to house to establish selfless relationships with families and spread the Gita's teachers. Adherents have followed suit to roughly 100,000 villages across India, and at least 34 nations across the globe. In these villages, Athavale started various experiments (''Prayogs'') to impart social activism by means of a god-centric devotion, including cooperative farming, fishing and tree-planting projects in the spirit of collective, divine labour (''Bhakti''), somewhat similar to the [[Antigonish Movement]] in Canada. Swadhyayees aim to fulfill Athavale's vision of eradicating the world's problems by creating a global family united under the principle of a universal blood maker. He felt that the universality of the Bhagavad Gita allows for it to a guide to all of humanity. As such, its thoughts should reach unto the last person. Today, the millions of adherents can be found on every habitable continent in over 35 countries including the Caribbean, Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and Africa. It is the Swadhyaya Parivar's mission to complete Rev. Athavale's vision of a ''"Universal Brotherhood under the Divine Fatherhood of God."''<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E3DB1230F935A35750C0A961958260 Leader of Spiritual Movement Wins $1.2 Million Religion Prize] ''[[The New York Times]]'', 6 March 1997.</ref>
==Swadhyaya Parivar== ==Swadhyaya Parivar==
<!-- THIS IS AN IMAGE FILE PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES IN IT IT WILL GET DELETED, THANKS! -->[[File:Pandurang Shastri Athavale-Templeton Prize 1997.jpg|right|upright=1.0|thumb|Pandurang Shastri Athavale receiving the [[Templeton Prize]] for Progress in Religion, from [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]] at a public ceremony held in [[Westminster Abbey]], 6 May 1997{{Deletable file-caption|Friday, 10 April 2026|F7}}]] The philosophy of original Vedic Dharma is the base of this movement. The philosophy of original Vedic Dharma is the base of this movement. [[Swadhyaya Parivar]] established itself in India in 1978 with adherents meeting every Sunday, where prayers are sung and a video recording of Athavale teaching about the Vedic dharma is played.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Diwanji|first1=Amberish K.|title=Applause and abuse as Athavale is awarded the Templeton prize|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/may/08swad.htm|access-date=2 May 2017|work=Rediff.com|date=8 May 1997}}</ref> Swadhyaya, which closely translates to "study of the self" is a process based upon Vedic philosophy, and the members of the Parivar are called "Swadhyayees". Over the years, Athavale's followers have taken the Bhagavad Gita's concepts of Indwelling God and God's universal love to millions of people, transcending caste, socioeconomic barriers, and religious differences. Athavale personally visited tens of thousands of villages (on foot and rented bicycles), and his brothers and sisters (''Swadhyayees'') personally go house to house to establish selfless relationships with families and spread the Gita's teachers. Adherents have followed suit to roughly 100,000 villages across India, and at least 34 nations across the globe. In these villages, Athavale started various experiments (''Prayogs'') to impart social activism by means of a god-centric devotion, including cooperative farming, fishing and tree-planting projects in the spirit of collective, divine labour (''Bhakti''), somewhat similar to the [[Antigonish Movement]] in Canada. Swadhyayees aim to fulfill Athavale's vision of eradicating the world's problems by creating a global family united under the principle of a universal blood maker. He felt that the universality of the Bhagavad Gita allows for it to a guide to all of humanity. As such, its thoughts should reach unto the last person. Today, the millions of adherents can be found on every habitable continent in over 35 countries including the Caribbean, Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and Africa. It is the Swadhyaya Parivar's mission to complete Rev. Athavale's vision of a ''"Universal Brotherhood under the Divine Fatherhood of God."''<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E3DB1230F935A35750C0A961958260 Leader of Spiritual Movement Wins $1.2 Million Religion Prize] ''[[The New York Times]]'', 6 March 1997.</ref> [[Swadhyaya Parivar]] established itself in India in 1978 with adherents meeting every Sunday, where prayers are sung and a video recording of Athavale teaching about the Vedic dharma is played.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Diwanji|first1=Amberish K.|title=Applause and abuse as Athavale is awarded the Templeton prize|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/may/08swad.htm|access-date=2 May 2017|work=Rediff.com|date=8 May 1997}}</ref> Swadhyaya, which closely translates to "study of the self" is a process based upon Vedic philosophy, and the members of the Parivar are called "Swadhyayees". Over the years, Athavale's followers have taken the Bhagavad Gita's concepts of Indwelling God and God's universal love to millions of people, transcending caste, socioeconomic barriers, and religious differences. Athavale personally visited tens of thousands of villages (on foot and rented bicycles), and his brothers and sisters (''Swadhyayees'') personally go house to house to establish selfless relationships with families and spread the Gita's teachers. Adherents have followed suit to roughly 100,000 villages across India, and at least 34 nations across the globe. In these villages, Athavale started various experiments (''Prayogs'') to impart social activism by means of a god-centric devotion, including cooperative farming, fishing and tree-planting projects in the spirit of collective, divine labour (''Bhakti''), somewhat similar to the [[Antigonish Movement]] in Canada. Swadhyayees aim to fulfill Athavale's vision of eradicating the world's problems by creating a global family united under the principle of a universal blood maker. He felt that the universality of the Bhagavad Gita allows for it to a guide to all of humanity. As such, its thoughts should reach unto the last person. Today, the millions of adherents can be found on every habitable continent in over 35 countries including the Caribbean, Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and Africa. It is the Swadhyaya Parivar's mission to complete Rev. Athavale's vision of a ''"Universal Brotherhood under the Divine Fatherhood of God."''<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E3DB1230F935A35750C0A961958260 Leader of Spiritual Movement Wins $1.2 Million Religion Prize] ''[[The New York Times]]'', 6 March 1997.</ref>