Swami
Narayan
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The
Swaminarayan Sampraday is a Bhakti Sampraday founded
by Bhagwan Swaminarayan on 31 December 1801 CE. It belongs
to the Vaishnav tradition and represents the purest
form of the Hindu religion. It focuses its faith on
salvation through total devotion - bhakti - to the Supreme
God developed through dharma, jnan and vairagya (righteousness,
knowledge and detachment).
Lord Swaminarayan, was born on 3 April 1781, in the
village of Chhapiya, near Ayodhya, North India. Having
mastered the scriptures by the age of 7, he left home
at the age of 11 to travel the whole of India on a holy
pilgrimage, eventually settling in Gujarat where he
was given the headship of a religious sect known as
Uddhav Sampradaay (later known as Swaminarayan Sampradaay),with
the blessings of his Guru Sadguru Ramanand Swami, at
age 21. He later became known as Swaminarayan after
the mantra he taught. Swaminarayan was known by many
names such as Shreeji Maharaj, Shri Hari and Sahajanand
Swami.
The Swaminarayan Sampradaya is a Bhakti Sampradaya which
advocates God within the disciplines of Dharma. Lord
Swaminarayan has propagated a philosophy where He says
that God is Supreme, has a divine form, is the all doer
and always present on earth. He simply states that jivas
never merge or dissolve into God and neither are they
part of God but always subservient to God. |