Barin Mehta

Name:  Barin Mehta

Date of birth: 26 August 1951 

Place of Birth: Mumbai

Birth State: Maharashtra, India

Religious affiliation:  Spiritualty connected with Shri Aurobindo and The Mother

Relationship: married

Children: 2

Companies I have worked for: Saurashtra University, Bhavnagar University, S.N.D.T. Women's University, Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, and Centre for Environment Education.

Colleges:  Samaldas Arts College, Bhavnagar.

Major: Samaldas Arts College, Bhavnagar

High School/s:  K. K. high school. Savarkundla, Sanosara high school, Sanosara

Favourite books: Savitri by Shri Aurobindo, Bhagavadgita, Shrimad Bhagvat, Valmiki Ramayan, Mahabharat by Shri Ved Vyas, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Gitanjali by Shri Rabindrnath Tagore, The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, Sarasvatichandra by Govardhanram Tripathi, Mobidic .... List may be increased....

Favourite Authors: Maharshi Ved Vyas, Valmiki, Saint Kabir, Meerabai, Govardhanram, Shri Aurobindo, Rabindranat Tagore, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, T.S. Elliot, Leo Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

Hobbies: Sports, travelling, reciting poems, folk dancing, Nature Camps, Wandering

Other interests:  Yoga, Healing, poetry - novel - drama - short stories - script writing, Arts, nature, environment

Clubs and Organisations:  Gujarati Lekhak Mandal, Mangalmoorti,

Describing myself: I am an average Indian, or you could say Asian too.  I am married and my wife Jagruti is a poet. We are parents of two young boys who are busy doing animation course right now. I am a language student and literature person. I have done my post graduation in language and literature. I started my working career as a lecturer and continued that for eight years in different colleges. Then I worked in Encyclopaedia of Gujarati Literature as an entry writer at Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, Ahmedabad. After 1 year, I left to work with Centre for Environment Education as a writer and until this date, I have worked there for the last 22 years.

Well, I am a writer and poet. In 1977, I published one novel, which won a second price. A poetry collection and at least 15 books are with my credit as an editor. Besides all of this, one underlying current was always leading me towards spirituality since my childhood years. By reading and following such interests, I have found the essence of life in spiritual practices. I have been learning and following the practices suggested by Shri Aurobindo and The Mother.  Although I am learning so much, I have discovered that I have miles to go yet, and I am still submitting myself more and more to the learning process!

Alongside with this, I formed a connection with healing and so I learned Reiki natural healing system as well as Karuna Reiki System and Crystal therapy. Now a day I am performing these systems as a healer and teacher, and I am getting satisfactory results. I teach these systems to whoever wants to learn.

Barin Mehta