Keshav Belsare Keshav Belsare, also affectionately known as "Baba" (father), was born into a middle-class family in Hyderabad on 8 February 1909. He had learnt texts such as the
Bhagavad Gita,
Dasbodh and
Dnyaneshwari, at an early age. He is claimed to have memorized all of the 700
shlokas of the
Bhagavad Gita within a single week. He started out as a teacher of English at Balmohan Vidyalaya in
Dadar, and later became a professor of philosophy at Siddhartha College in
Mumbai. His lectures were immensely popular in college, and students from multiple disciplines would enrol for his classes. He was known to possess extraordinary clarity and an ability to teach complex subjects in an easy-to-understand manner. He was initiated in 1931. Over time, he became a prominent propagator of Brahmachaitanya's teachings. He actively engaged in promoting these teachings for more than 60 years. He would often conduct discourses on topics ranging from meditation to literary works such as
Dnyaneshwari and
Dasbodh. He authored more than 50 books in Marathi. His notable works include the biography of Brahmachaitanya,
Upanishdacha Abhyas and
Bhavarthgatha.
Dattatreya Bendre Dattatreya Bendre (31 January 1896 – 26 October 1981) was a
Kannada poet and recipient of the
Jnanpith Award. He revered Brahmachaitanya and believed the latter to have bestowed upon him "the gift of poetry". ==Worship==