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Dada Vaswani
BornJashan Pahlajrai Vaswani
(1918-08-02) 2 August 1918 (age 106)
Hyderabad, Sindh, Sind Province
NationalityIndian
Other namesDada J. P. Vaswani, Dada Jashan
EducationM.Sc. (Physics)
Websitewww.sadhuvaswani.org

Dada Vaswani, born Jashan Pahlajrai Vaswani (Template:Lang-sd) (born August 2, 1918), is a spiritual leader and head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission.

He was born on August 2, 1918, at Hyderabad, Sindh, in a Sindhi family. He passed the Bachelor of Science examination at the age of 17 years. For his Master's degree, his thesis was on "The Scattering of X-Rays by Solids", which was assessed by C.V. Raman. He also worked as a Fellow in the D.J. Sind College, Karachi. He then followed his guru and his saintly uncle Sadhu Vaswani, a mystic, philosopher, humanitarian, educationist and apostle of Indian Culture.

He has spoken at numerous venues including the British House of Commons in London, the Global Forum of Spiritual Leaders in Oxford, the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, and the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders at the United Nations in New York. He is the recipient of the U Thant Peace Award. He has written about 75 books.

Quotation

"In the midst of your daily work,
in the tumult and storm of life,
pause for a while,
again and again."

External links

References

  1. "Sadhu Vaswani Mission: Dada J.P. Vaswani". Sadhu Vaswani Mission. Retrieved 10 July 2013.

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