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Ambulal Balkrishna Purani (26 May 1894 – 11 December 1965) was an Indian writer. He was a prominent disciple and biographer of
Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...
.


Life and work

Purani was born on 26 May 1894 in
Surat Surat is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The word Surat literally means ''face'' in Gujarati and Hindi. Located on the banks of the river Tapti near its confluence with the Arabian Sea, it used to be a large seaport. It is now ...
(now in
Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...
, India). A nationalist activist as a young man, in 1923 he joined
Sri Aurobindo Ashram The Sri Aurobindo Ashram is a spiritual community (ashram) located in Pondicherry, in the Indian territory of Puducherry. The ashram grew out of a small community of disciples who had gathered around Sri Aurobindo after he retired from ...
on being convinced by Sri Aurobindo that he need not worry about the freedom of India as it was sure to come in time. He was a personal attendant to Sri Aurobindo from 1938 to 1950.Author bio at Vedic books
/ref> His work, most notably ''The Life of Sri Aurobindo'' and ''Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo'', constitutes one of the main sources on the life and sayings of this guru. He travelled extensively to give lectures on the yogic teaching of Sri Aurobindo, visiting the United States in 1962. Some of the lectures are available in book form which include major works like ''Savitri'' and the ''Life Divine''. His ''Evening Talks'' throws a major light on the personality of the great master Sri Aurobindo and his multifaceted knowledge. ''Lectures on Savitri'' gives a brief idea about the great epic Savitri. He wrote a biography of
Manilal Dwivedi Manilal Nabhubhai Dwivedi (; 26 September 1858 – 1 October 1898) was a Gujarati-language writer, philosopher, and social thinker from British India, commonly referred to as Manilal in literary circles. He was an influential figure in 19th-ce ...
entitled ''Manilal Dwivedinu Jeevancharitra'' (1951). Purani died from
heart attack A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary artery of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which may tr ...
on 11 December 1965 in
Pondicherry Pondicherry (), now known as Puducherry ( French: Pondichéry ʊdʊˈtʃɛɹi(listen), on-dicherry, is the capital and the most populous city of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. The city is in the Puducherry district on the sout ...
, India.


Publications

* ''The Life of Sri Aurobindo''. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1958. * ''Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo''. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1959. * ''Lectures on Savitri: lectures delivered in the United States''. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1967.


See also

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List of Gujarati-language writers Well known laureates of Gujarati literature are Hemchandracharya, Narsinh Mehta, Mirabai, Akho, Premanand Bhatt, Shamal Bhatt, Dayaram, Dalpatram, Narmad, Govardhanram Tripathi, Mahatma Gandhi, K. M. Munshi, Umashankar Joshi, Suresh Joshi, Pan ...


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Purani, Ambulal 20th-century Indian biographers 1894 births 1965 deaths Writers from Gujarat Gujarati-language writers Indian biographers Indian travel writers Indian essayists Indian translators People from Surat 20th-century translators 20th-century essayists