1. Sadhu Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani was an Indian educationist who started the Mira Movement In Education and set up St Mira's School in Hyderabad, Sindh, and later moved to Pune after 1949.
13 Facts About Sadhu Vaswani
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Sadhu Vaswani was born Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, in Hyderabad Sindh.
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Later in his lifetime, Sadhu Vaswani was recognized as an accomplished proponent of the Upanishads and a skilled interpreter of the Bible and the Qur'an.
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Sadhu Vaswani then asked his mother for permission to devote his life to the service of God and man.
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Sadhu Vaswani's mother desired that her son have success in life and would not agree.
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Sadhu Vaswani's mother sought to arrange a marriage for her son but Vaswani vowed to remain a brahmachari and never to marry.
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Sadhu Vaswani soon accepted a position as Professor of History and Philosophy at Metropolitan College in Calcutta.
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In July 1910, when Sadhu Vaswani was 30 years old, he and his guru, Sri Promotholal Sen, sailed from Mumbai to Berlin.
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Sadhu Vaswani spoke to the conference as a representative of India and expressed a message of peace, tranquility, the helping and healing of India, and Atman.
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Sadhu Vaswani was 40 years old when his mother died.
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Sadhu Vaswani fulfilled his promise to her to work and make an income during her lifetime, but after her funeral he resigned his employment.
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In 1948, Sadhu Vaswani reluctantly migrated to India from Sindh, which lay in the newly formed state of Pakistan.
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Sadhu Vaswani was an early supporter of Mahatma Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement.