Swami Anand

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Swami Anand
Born
Himmatlal Dave

1887 (1887)
Shiyani near
British India
Died25 January 1976(1976-01-25) (aged 88–89)
Bombay
, India
NationalityIndian
Occupations
  • Writer
  • Monk
  • Activist

Swami Anand (1887 – 25 January 1976) was a monk, a

Gandhi's publications such as Navajivan and Young India and inspired Gandhi to write his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth.[1]
He wrote sketches, memoir, biographies, philosophy, travelogues and translated some works.

Biography

Early life

Swami Anand was born Himmatlal on 8 September 1887 at Shiyani village near

Bombay. At the age of ten, he left home in opposition to marriage and due to an offer by a monk to show him God. He wandered for three years with several different monks. He took a vow of renunciation while still in his teens, took on the name Swami Anand and became a monk with the Ramakrishna Mission. He also lived at the Advaita Ashram where he studied.[3][4][5]

Anand's entry into the

Almoda which was founded by Annie Besant.[5][2]

Gandhi's associate

Mohammed Ali Jouhar, its publication began. In 18 March 1922, he was jailed for one and a half years as a publisher for an article published in Young India.[5][8][2]

Gandhi's autobiography was serialised in the Navjeevan from 1925 to 1928. It was written by Gandhi at Swami Anand's insistence and an English translation of these chapters appeared in installments in the Young India as well.

The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi was published based on the talks Gandhi gave at the Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad in 1926.[11] Swami Anand played a role in inspiring Gandhi to write this work as well.[12]

He was

1934 earthquake in north India and in the 1942 Quit India movement.[2] Following Partition in 1947, he worked amongst the refugees from Sialkot and Hardwar.[6]

Later life

After

Robert Oppenheimer, whose biography he wrote. From 1957 to 1976, he made the Kosbad Agricultural Institute at Dahanu, near Bombay, his home.[13][6] He died on 25 January 1976 at 2:15 am in Bombay following heart attack.[2][5]

Literary career

Swami Anand was a

Max Muller, Walt Whitman, Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda. Besides fiction, Swami Anand also wrote on issues of science, religion and society.[3] He had written memoirs, biographies, philosophies, travelogues and translations. Many of his works were published posthumously.[5]

He has written several character sketches, biographical reflections and biographies of his friends and associates including Gandhijina Sansmarano (1963), Bhagwan Buddha (1964, co-written), Kulkathao (1966), Dharatinu Lun (1969), Motne Hamfavnara (1969), Santona Anuj (1971), Naghrol (1975), Santono Falo (1978).[5][3] Kulkathao, a series of pen portraits of people from the Bhatia caste, won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1969, but, he refused to accept the award due to his vow not to accept any monetary benefits for his writings.[14][15][5] Gujarati writer and translator Mulshankar Bhatt has collected his best of the character sketches and published as Dharati Ni Arati (1977). In it, he has sketched the character of those people who had created a deep impression in his life. Some of the popular characters from it are Dhanima, Mahadev Desai, Vamandada and Dr. Mayadas.[16]

His philosophical essay collections include Isunu Balidan (1922), Ishopnishad, Ishubhagwat (1977), Lokgeeta, Navla Darshan Ane Bija Lekho (1968), Manavtana Veri (1966), Anant Kala (1967), Atamna Mool (1967), Sarvoday Vicharana (co-written).

Sarvodaya Movement extensively.[3] These essays share views on religion and society based on the concept of Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava which he had embraced.[5]

He also produced travelogues based on his travels in the Himalayas which were published in Prasthan magazine between 1954 and 1960 and posthumously published in Uttarapathni Yatra and Baraf Raste Badrinath (1980). His translation of Sven Hedin's travel writing as Asiana Bhraman Ane Sanshodhan in Gujarati, was also published posthumously in 1979.[3][5]

Bachpanna Bar Varsh (1982) is his incomplete autobiographical work. Juni Moodi (1980) is a collection of proverbs and idioms.[5]

Some of his other works include Ambavadiyun and Amaratvel and a compilation of correspondence between him and Gandhi's colleagues are contained in the Ugamani Dishano Ujas and Dhodhamar, all edited by Dinkar Joshi.[17]

A biography of Swami Anand was written by Chandrakant Sheth[2] and he is the central character in Sujata Bhatt's poem, "Point No Point".[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Autobiography". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  2. ^
    ISBN 8126003790
    .
  3. ^
    ISBN 9788126012213
    .
  4. ISBN 9781435704725
    .
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Brahmabhatt, Prasad (2007). અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ (ગાંધીયુગ અને અનુગાંધી યુગ) Arvachin Gujarati Sahityano Itihas (Gandhiyug Ane Anugandhi Yug) [History of Modern Gujarati Literature (Gandhi Era & Post-Gandhi Era)] (in Gujarati). Ahmedabad: Parshwa Publication. pp. 60–63.
  6. ^ a b c "Gandhiji's Associates in India". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  7. ^ "Chronological Sketch of Gandhi in Bombay". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  8. ^ Meghani, Mahendra. Gandhi – Ganga (PDF). Mumbai: Mumbai Sarvodaya Mandal. p. 21.
  9. ^ "THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH by Mohandas K. Gandhi". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  10. ^ "Autobiography". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  11. ISBN 9781556439780
    .
  12. ^ "Bhagavad–Gita introduction by Gandhi". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  13. ISBN 9788170225898
    .
  14. ^ Nagendra, Dr. (1988). Indian Literature. Delhi: Prabhat Prakashan. p. 333.
  15. ISBN 978-81-260-1803-1
    . Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  16. hdl:10603/130572
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  17. ^ "Dinkar Joshi". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  18. ^ Bhatt, Sujata. "Point No Point" (PDF).

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