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thumb. Sri Purohit Swami (1882-1941). Courtesy Realization.
Shri Purohit Swami (12 November 1882 – 1941) was a Hindu teacher from Maharashtra, India.
Life[]
Purohit was born in Badnera, Vidarbha, India to a wealthy Maharashtran Brahmin family. His parents gave him the name Shankar Gajannan Purohit.
As a child he became proficient in Marathi, English, and Sanskrit. He was well educated, earning a B.A. in philosophy from Calcutta University in 1903 and a law degree from Deccan College and Bombay University.
As a teenager, he decided to be celibate, but in 1908 he accommodated his parents' wishes and married Godu Bai. After the birth of daughters in 1910 and 1914 and a son in 1915, he resumed his vow of celibacy.
A year or two before his marriage, he met a young man only 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.
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.
Writing[]
Purohit is known in the West principally for his work on translations of major Hindu texts, and for his Autobiography of an Indian Monk (1932).
He translated the Bhagavad Gita into English. He also worked with W.B. Yeats during 1935 and 1936, on Majorca, on the translations in The Ten Principal Upanishads (1938, Faber and Faber).
He represents a very important but largely unremembered link between the generation of Swami Vivekananda and the Post World War II society in which eastern thought has become an accepted element of spiritual life.
Recognition[]
Yeats included some of his poetry in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892–1935.
Publications[]
Non-fiction[]
- An Indian Monk: His life and adventures. London: Macmillan, 1932; New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1992.
Translated[]
- The Ten Principal Upanishads (with W.B. Yeats). London: Faber, 1938.
- The Geeta: The gospel of the Lord Shri Krishna. London: Faber, 1959.
- also published as The Bhagavad-Gita: The gospel of the Lord Shri Krishna. New York: Random House, 1977.
.Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[1]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Search results = au:Shri Purohit Swami, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Mar. 14, 2015.
External links[]
- About
- Shri Purohit Swami at Realization.org.
- Shri Purohit Swami in the Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology.
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