A.R.Bakshi (born in 1907) after having served as Advocate General of the Saurashtra State, was a judge of the Gujarat High Court, and later Chairman of the State Law Commission. He was then appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Saurashtra University. He is a keen student of comparative philosophy, Vedanta, and Kashmir Saivism and is the author of philosophical works in the Gujarati language. He is a musicologist and distinguished member of the India Section of the Theosophical Society.

The Universe and Man, have both been the subject of study by great thinkers through the scriptures of oriental religions and philosophies. H.P.Blavatsky undertook the huge task of collecting, correlating and interpreting this vast material  in her magnum opus, The Secret Doctrine.

Man and the Universe- A Quest presents some of the main principles of occult teaching to the ordinary reader and also supplies the serious student with sufficient material for original study offering profuse references to The Secret Doctrine.