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{{short description|Indian professor (1933-2007)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Mangesh Vithal Nadkarni
| image = MVN-Savitri.jpg
| caption = {{birth-date|6 March 1933}}
| birth_place = Kodibag, [[Karwar, Uttar Kannada, Karnataka]]
| death_date = {{d-da|23 September 2007|6 March 1933}}
| death_place = Pondicherry, India
| occupation = [[Professor]], and a [[Apprenticeship|disciple]] of [[Sri Aurobindo]]
| spouse = Meera Mallapur
| parents = Vithal Nadkarni and Indira Kaushik
| footnotes =
}}

'''Mangesh Vithal Nadkarni''' (1933–2007) was a [[professor]] of English literature, and a [[Apprenticeship|disciple]] of [[Sri Aurobindo]]. He lectured on [[Sri Aurobindo]]'s philosophy and vision <ref>[http://www.auroville.org/journals&media/invocation/invocation.htm Nadkarni's contributions to Sri Aurobindo Invocations] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224180950/http://www.auroville.org/journals%26media/invocation/invocation.htm |date=24 February 2008}}</ref>

Nadkarni was born in Kodibag and raised in [[Bankikodla-Hanehalli|Bankikkodla]]. At Bankikodla, literature, folk art, spiritual lore, music and sports kept him enthralled during his school days. Mangesh completed his high school diploma (1948–49) from the [[Anandashram High School, Bankikodla|A. H. School]], Bankikodla. His teachers in high school gave impetus to his imagination and taught him to perceive the sheer excitement of ideas, leading him to the path of his inner quest. [[Sundar Nadkarni]] a Karnataka Sahitya Akademi winner was Mangesh's younger brother.

Nadkarni completed his M.A. in English literature from [[Rajaram College]], [[Kolhapur]], and began his teaching career in [[Rajkot]]. Later, he moved to [[Anand, Gujarat|Anand]] where he was a lecturer of English at [[Nalini Arvind & T.V. Patel Arts College]]. During his college career, Nadkarni was a student of professor [[V.K. Gokak]] who influenced Nadkarni towards Sri Aurobindo's philosophy. Mangesh earned his Ph.D. in Phonetics from the [[UCLA]], and was a professor of linguistics at the [[Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages]], Hyderabad. He later taught as a senior lecturer at the [[National University of Singapore]] (1985–93). During the course of his tenure, he guided Ph.D. candidates and published in theoretical and applied Linguistics journals.

==At Pondicherry==
Nadkarni's interest in Sri Aurobindo and his writings were awakened when as a young man he came across the following utterance of Sri Aurobindo in a journal, "Heaven we have possessed, but not the earth; but the fullness of the Yoga is to make, in the formula of the veda, 'Heaven and Earth equal and one'"

The influence of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy on him was gradual, and he found it intellectually most liberating and satisfying. He was a [[Yogi]] on the path of continuous progress, and a renowned exponent of the [[Integral Yoga]] of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. He lectured many times on Sri Aurobindo's philosophy and vision. Nadkarni spoke brilliantly on ‘Savitri’, a 24,000-verse epic poem by Sri Aurobindo. The poem recounts the saga of human victory over ignorance and the conquest of death. Reading ‘Savitri’ is itself considered a practice of integral yoga and a potent vehicle of aspiration. Nadkarni inculcated ‘Savitri’ as a mantra in his life.

== Selected work ==
* Beyond Liberalism 'Humanism and Technological Trans-humanism.' - a monograph
* 'Some thoughts on taking Sri Aurobindo to the youth'. - a monograph
* A Brief Introduction to Savitri - a monograph. - a monograph
* Problems of Human Unity in Sri Aurobindo's Light - a monograph.
* Hindu-Muslim Unity in Sri Aurobindo's Light - a monograph.
* A set of sixteen audio-cassettes containing talks given by him on Savitri at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram have been published.
* India's Spiritual Destiny - Its Inevitability and Potentiality
* "Bilingualism and syntactic change in Konkani" published in - Language, 1975 - (a major journal included in JSTOR) has 86 citations.

==See also==
* A journey on The Sunlit Path - A collection of tributes to Nadkarni (Publisher Mirravision Trust, Pondicheri- 605003, India.), 2008.<ref>[http://sabda.sriaurobindoashram.org/pdf/news/may2008.pdf Sabda publications]</ref>

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