Could you think of a young, frolicsome lad who dropped school to become a monk and then following a relentlessly upward career trajectory? Even writing scholarly tomes in Sanskrit?Amazing, eh? This reporter recently met this amazingly brilliant sadhu who has the singular accomplishment of authoring a five-volume commentary on Hinduism’s three canonical texts including Upanishads and Bhagvad Gita. And this stupendous work leaves footprints on the sands of time having been completed by anyone in the last several centuries.
Bhadreshdas Swami, 50, belongs to the BAPS Swaminarayan organization that is also popular for its relief works in the country as also its qualified sadhus. The story of Bhadresh Swami is intriguing in more ways than one. When he renounced the world at 14, he had no idea of reaching out for excellence in academia. But he was a bubbly boy, eager to do things. While at school, his favourite subjects were mathematics and....
