Paramahamsa ParivrajakacharyaShrimat Vasudevananda Saraswati Swami Maharaj (1854 – 1914 A.D.) was considered to be the third incarnation of Lord Dattatreya and was adorably addressed as Shri Thorle Swami Maharaj by his devotees. Much has been written about Swami Maharaj by his devotees. Much has been written about Swami Maharaj's life story in Marathi which includes a detailed bio-graphical sketch spread across nine volumes, authored by the eminent scholars DR. K.R. Joshi, Shri D.S. Manjarekar and others. However it was a long-felt need to inform the rest of the non-Marathi speaking world about this Himalayan figure of Indian spirituality.