SO SAYS JAN GOPAL
Jan Gopal does not conform to the stereotype of a typical follower of the nirgun panth, or sect. Born into a prosperous merchant family, he chose to join a nirguni panth not because of family tradition or social location. He chose it through a conscious, personal decision, and brought not only an excellent knowledge of prosody, poetic conventions and classical Hindustani music, but also an urbane and progressive sensibility to his literary works, of which the best-known are Dadu Janma Lila, a seminal biography of his guru, Dadu Dayal (a contemporary of Akbar); and retellings of stories from the Bhagvata Purana: Prahlad Charitra, Dhruv Charitra and Jad Bharat Charitra.