Pandurang Shastri Athavale

Pandurang Shastri Vaijnath Athavale (19 October 1920 – 25 October 2003), known as dada (Gujarati: દાદા, Marathi: दादा), meaning elder brother in Marathi) was an Indian philosopher and social reformer who gave discourses upon the Hindu religious texts, Srimad Bhagawad Gita and Upnishads.

• It is my experience that awareness of nearness of God and reverence for that power creates reverence for self, reverence for the other, reverence for nature and reverence for the entire creation, and devotion as an expression of gratitude to God can turn into a social force to bring about transformative changes in all aspects of human life and at all levels of society. - Acceptance speech while receiving the 1997 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, from HRH Prince Philip at a public ceremony held in Westminster Abbey, May 6, 1997.

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• Fearlessness is the result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

• God does not work for you. He works with you.

• Keep Gita in your head and heart and be proud of yourself.

• Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

• Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.