About Me
- बलदेव दास
- I began studying Indian philosophy at the age of fifteen. In 2001, I was admitted to the undergraduate program in the Sanskrit Faculty of Banaras Hindu University. Between 2004 and 2005, I translated all of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s purports to the Bhagavad-gita into Sanskrit. In 2006, I completed my postgraduate studies and was awarded a gold medal for academic excellence. In 2009, I defended my PhD dissertation on Gaudiya Vedanta as presented in Baladeva Vidyabhusana’s Govinda-bhasya. The dissertation examined the distinctive features of this work from the perspectives of epistemology, ontology, metaphysics, theology, and ethics. During this period, I also taught Sanskrit grammar and philosophy in the same faculty. I am currently working on the “Vidyabhusana Project,” which aims to prepare critical editions and English translations of the complete works of Baladeva Vidyabhusana.