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A year or two before his marriage, he met a young man four years older than himself named Natekar. Purohit says this meeting "was love at first sight," and Natekar, who later took the monastic name Bhagwan Shri Hamsa, became Purohit's guru.
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In 1923 his guru directed him to embark on a mendicant pilgrimage the length and breadth of India. Begging bowl in hand, he passed several years in this way. He travelled to Europe on an extended visit in 1930.
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into English. Unlike most translations, Purohit Swami's translates every word into English and avoids the use of Sanskrit concepts that may be unfamiliar to English-speakers, for example translating the word
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Purohit is known in the West principally for his work on translations of major Hindu texts. During his state visit in June 2023 to the US, Indian prime minister
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As a child he became proficient in Marathi, English, and Sanskrit. He was well educated, obtaining a B.A. in philosophy at
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and the post-World War II society in which Eastern thought has become an accepted element of spiritual life.
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He represents a very important but largely unremembered link between the generation of
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with a handful of illustrated yoga exercises and postures. Yeats included him in the
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in 1903 and a law degree from Deccan College and Bombay University.
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The Autobiography of an Indian Monk: His Life And His Adventures
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presented the Bidens with a first edition print of the book
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he interprets this as different occupations within society.
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Yeats wrote an introduction to Purohit's 1932 book,
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