Shri N.V. Gunaji was a great scholar who wrote over 28 books on various people and issues. He was very interested in the spiritual teachings of Sai Baba, Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Ramkrishna Paramhansa. He wrote and translated the Bhagwad Gita, the Bhagwat, etc. He has written the life of Sri Paramhans Ramakrishna as well as that of Sri Ramana Maharshi in Marathi and several books on the teaching of Swami Ramtirth. He also translated Booker T. Washington's biography which he called "Atmoddhar". He was born in Belgaum city in Karnataka state in India in July 1873. He did his school education in Belgaum, in Sardar High School and later graduated from Mumbai's Wilson College. He studied in the Government Law College in Mumbai and passed his LLB (Bachelor of Law) examination. Soon after, he returned to Belgaum to become a Lawyer. After practising law for several years Shri N.V. Gunaji also joined the Belgaum Municipality (City Government) as Chief Executive Officer. Throughout his life he was a non-stop reader and translated several books in English or Marathi. Shri Gunaji was also keenly interested in naturopathy and published two books on "Scientific and Efficient Breathing" and "Anti T.B. & Anti Heart Failure". He would treat patients through naturopathy and scientific massage. He was lucky to get a chance to treat Mahatma Gandhi by his scientific massage techniques. Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of India's struggle for freedom from the British rule. Shri Gunaji also treated Sri Ramana Maharshi when he visited the spiritual leader in Arunachalam. Shri N.V. Gunaji adapted and translated Shri Hemand Pant Dabholkar's "Sri Sai Satcharita" into English and donated all the earned money to the Sai Sansthan Trust (temple in Shirdi). The book has reached out to thousands of devotees and people over the last forty five years who have read it and have had their faith and Shraddha in Baba reinforced. Many devotees use this book to read it as a 'Saptah'. Shri N.V. Gunaji passed away in 1963, a few months before his ninetieth year.