Dada Bhagwan, also known as Dadashri, born Ambalal
Muljibhai Patel, who passed away on 2 January 1988, aged 79, was an
Indian spiritual leader from Gujarat who founded the Akram Vignan Movement. He
was spiritually inclined from an early age. He worked as a contractor for a
company maintaining dry docks in Bombay before attaining
"self-realization" in 1958. He left business and focused on his
spiritual goals. The movement around his teaching grew into the Akram Vignan movement gaining followers in western India and abroad. Ahimsa (non-violence) and vegetarianism are an important part of Dada's
teachings.
