Swami Swarupanand was a great saint and philosopher who was born on December 15th, 1903, at Pawas, a small village near Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. He translated the Marathi book, Dnyaneshwari, which was written by Saint Dnyaneshwar.
The language used in this book was very difficult for common people to understand. So he translated it into simple Marathi as Abhang Dnyaneshwari. He also translated the Changdev Pasashti and Amrutanubhav into Marathi. His translation of the Bhagavad Gita into Marathi is titled, Bhavartha Gita.
He took Samadhi on August 15th, 1974.