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The Swaminarayan Sampradaya, also known as Swaminarayan Hinduism and Swaminarayan movement, is a Hindu Vaishnava sampradaya rooted in Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita, [note 1] [note 2] characterized by the worship of its charismatic [3] founder Sahajanand Swami, better known as Swaminarayan (1781–1830), as an avatar of Krishna [4] [5] [6] or as the highest manifestation of Purushottam, the ...
Swaminarayan Museum in Ahmedabad, which houses more than 5000 artifacts, was opened in March 2011. [37] The museum holds items such as Swaminarayan's writing scripts, day to day garments and ornaments. This is the first project in the Swaminarayan Sampraday that aims to acquire all of Swaminarayan's Prasadi items from temples across the world.
Swaminarayan (IAST: Svāmīnārāyaṇa; 3 April 1781 – 1 June 1830), also known as Sahajanand Swami, was a yogi and ascetic believed by followers to be a manifestation of Krishna [2] [3] [4] or the highest manifestation of Purushottama, [5] [6] around whom the Swaminarayan Sampradaya developed.
Tejendraprasad Pande (born 11 April 1944), formally known by his full title as Sanatan Dharma Dhurandar Acharya Maharaj Shree 1008 Tejendraprasadji Maharaj [1] was appointed acharya of the Narnarayan Dev gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday, a Hindu sect, by his father, the previous acharya, Devendraprasad, and was enthroned on 13 October 1969.
Members of the Swaminarayan Sampraday, including saints and satsangis of Kutch residing in India and abroad, have resolved to construct a new marble temple a short distance from the site. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The new temple, the largest in Gujarat, was opened in May 2010 by the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi .
Brahmanand Swami (12 February 1772 – 1832) was revered as a saint of the Swaminarayan Sampraday and as one of Swaminarayan Bhagwan's Paramahamsa.He was also known as one of Swaminarayan's Ashta Kavi's (eight poets) within the Swaminarayan Sampraday In the scriptures of the Swaminarayan Sampraday it was noted that Brahmanand Swami as stated by Swaminarayan Bhagwan that as the name suggests ...
Ramanand Swami was the guru of Swaminarayan. [citation needed] Swaminarayan left his home at age 11 on 28 June 1792 after the death of both his parents. He began a journey across India that took 7 years 1 month and 11 days. [citation needed] He took the name Nilkanth Varni while on his journey.
On a mutual introduction, Muktanand Swami gathered that the visitor was the son of DharmaDev and BhaktiDevi, and had spent seven years in the seclusion of the mountains and forests. His present name was Varniraj (forestdweller) Nilkanth Varni (Swaminarayan). Muktanand Swami asked Nilkanth Varni to stay in Loj until Ramanand Swami returned the ...