Swadhyay Parivar adalah sebuah gerakan devosional yang berbasis di Maharashtra, India. Gerakan tersebut diklaim memiliki lebih dari 50,000 tempat kendra dan 6,000,000 pengikut di India, Portugal, AS, Inggris, Kanada, dan Timur Tengah yang melakukan kegiatan pengembangan diri, aktivitas devosional dan kegiatan kesadaran sosial di seluruh dunia.[1]
Swadhyaya artinya belajar diri sendiri untuk pertanyaan spiritual.
Swadhyay MovementLiving Religions: An Encyclopaedia of the World's Faiths, by Mary Pat Fisher. Published by I.B.Tauris, 1996. ISBN 1-86064-148-2, Page 109.
Self-Development and Social Transformations?: The Vision and Practice of the Self-Study Mobilization of Swadhyaya, by Ananta Kumar Giri. Lexington Books. 2008. ISBN 0-7391-1198-1.
Role of the swadhyaya parivar in socioeconomic changes among the tribals of Khedasan: A case study, by Vimal P Shah. Gujarat Institute of Development Research, 1998. ISBN 81-85820-53-8.
Vital Connections: Self, Society, God: Perspectives on Swadhyaya, by Raj Krishan Srivastava. 1998; Weatherhill, ISBN 0-8348-0408-5.
"Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability", by Pankaj Jain. 2011; Ashgate, ISBN 978-1-4094-0591-7.