Sopan
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Sopan(संत सोपानदेव) was a Hindu bhakti Saint and also younger brother of Sant Dnyaneshwar.
Sopan means a new chapter in India, and means polite in Indonesian. In Bengali or Sanskrit, Sopan means level, stair or step . And in Sanskrit, it can also be referred as "ladder to heaven".
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Sopan was named so by his parents Vitthal Govind Kulkarni and Rukmini because Nivrutti and Dnyan was the sopan or ladder to mukti or salvation. He had two brothers and a sister. Sopandev was a younger brother, who attained ‘samadhi' at Saswad near Pune. He wrote a book "Sopandevi" based on the Bhagvadgita's Marathi interpretation along with 50 or so abhangas. He and his siblings were harassed by society due to their father's abandonment of sanyasa.
