Shri Purohit Swami

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Shri Purohit Swami (1882 - 1941) was a Hindu teacher from Maharashtra, India. He is known in the West principally for his work on translations of major Hindu texts, and his Autobiography of an Indian Monk (1932). He travelled to Europe on an extended visit in 1930.

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). Yeats included him in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935.

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 a accepted element of spiritual life.