[4] Swami Shree Govinddev Giri was born as Kishore on 25 January 1949 in a religious Brahmin family in the village of Belapur in Ahilyanagar district of Maharashtra.

He then joined the Tatvadnyaan Vidyapeeth, established by Pandurang Shastri Athawale of the Swadhyaya Parivar and obtained a master's degree in philosophy under his guidance.

[7] Swamiji then went to Varanasi for further study of the Vedas, Upanishads, and other religious scriptures of ancient India and obtained the title of 'Darshanacharya' under the guidance of the Vedic scholar Vedmurti Aacharya Shree Kishore Vyas.

[6] With the blessings of Jayendra Saraswati, the head of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peeth in Tamil Nadu, Giri was initiated into Paramhans Sanyas on the banks of the Ganges River in the holy city of Haridwar on 30th April 2006.

In this initiative, millions of people are taught the Gita in 12 Indian languages and also in English, and after memorising each chapter, the learner is examined and then a certificate is given.