Foreword
Preface
About Author
Chapter Index
- Despondency of
Arjuna.
- Sankhya and
Yoga
- Karmayoga
- Sankhyayoga
- Renunciation
- Dhyanayoga
- Wisdom and
Knowledge
- The Imperishable
Brahman
- The Esoteric
Knowledge
- Divine
Manifestations
- The Universal
Form
- Bhaktiyoga
- The Field andKnower of
the Field
- The Three
Qualities
- The Supreme
Person
- The Divine and
Demoniacal Natures
- Three Kinds of
Faith
- Release
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The author was born in a small village in 1916. He had his school
education in the Hindu High school. Karwar and Garud High School, Dhulia
and college education in the Ferguson college and Shri Parshuram Bhau
college, Pune. He had the good fortune to study Sanskrit under the
guidance of Shri V. H. Nijsure and Prof. R. N. Dandekar and Mathematics
under the guidance of Prof. D. D. Koshambi, and Prof. D. W. Kerkar. He
stood first in Sanskrit in the matriculation examination (1933) and
secured the Jagannath Shankarshet Scholarship. He stood first in the B. A.
And M. A. Examination of the then Bombay University and was the
chancellor's medallist (in Mathematics, 1939). He topped the list of
successful candidates in the Indian Civil service held at Delhi in 1940.
He served the erstwhile Bombay and Maharashtra State as Collector of
Pune, Development Commissioner, Bombay and as Finance Secretary in the
state of Maharashtra. During his stay at Nasik, he had the privilege,
along with his Friend Dr. C. B. Khadilkar, to read Shankara bhashya on the
Brahma-sutra with his Holiness the late Dr. Kurtakoti, Shankaracharya of
Karvira Peeth. He went to the Government of India in 1962 and worked as
programme Advisor, Planning Commission, Additional Secretary, and Ministry
of Home and retired as Finance Secretary in 1974.
After retirement he worked in all for ten years as a trustee and chief
trustee of Shri Jnaneshwar Maharaja Sansthan at Alandi and has been
working as Chairman, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Pune Kendra. His three works.
The yoga of Patanjali, The Mahabharata, its Genesis and Growth, A
Statistical Study and The Bhagavad-Gita as a Synthesis have been published
by the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune. His translations of
Jnaneshwari in Marathi, Hindi and English have been published by the
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Pune Kendra.
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