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-| caption = Dada Maheshvarananda in 2011 |
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-| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|5|11}}|
- birth_place = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], [[U.S.]]
-| school_tradition = [[Neohumanism]]
-| main_interests = [[Progressive Utilization Theory|PROUT]], [[Economic Democracy]], [[Meditation]], [[Yoga]]
-| influences = [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]], [[Sohail Inayatullah]], Michael Towsey, [[Frei Betto]], [[Paolo Freire]], [[Nelson Mandela]], [[Noam Chomsky]], [[David Dellinger]], [[Howard Zinn]], [[Robert Bly]], [[Amy Goodman]], [[Eduardo Galeano]], [[Bo Lozoff]], [[Karl Rohnke]], [[Hazel Henderson]], Roar Bjonnes}}
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 '''Dada Maheshvarananda'''<ref>'''Maheshvarananda''' is the spiritual name  (meaning in Sanskrit “one who experiences the bliss of the Supreme”) and ''Dada'' (or ''Dadaji'', when intended with more respect), means ''elder brother'' in several Indian languages.</ref> (born May 11, 1953 in the United States) is a [[yoga]] [[monk]], activist and writer. As a student, he adopted a radical approach to social change, and was inspired to become, in the words of [[Che Guevara]], a "true revolutionary guided by great feelings of love."