Reginald Heber
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Reginald Heber was an English Anglican bishop, a man of letters, and hymn-writer. After 16 years as a country parson, he served as Bishop of Calcutta until his death at the age of 42. The son of a ric
Reginald Heber
Hodnet in Shropshire, where Heber spent his early years
Brasenose College, Oxford (modern photograph)
A depiction of the Kremlin in Moscow
Swaminarayan
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Swaminarayan, also known as Sahajanand Swami, was a yogi and ascetic believed by followers to be a manifestation of Krishna or the highest manifestation of Purushottama, around whom the Swaminarayan S
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…palace; Heber wrote of the emperor as "the venerable ruin of a mighty stock". In the final stages of the journey to Bombay, at Nadiad, Heber met with Sahajanand Swami, the region's leading Hindu religious leader. Heber had hopes of converting the Swami to Christianity, but was disappointed in the meeting since he…
Illustration of Swaminarayan writing the Shikshapatri
Dharmadev teaching Ghanshyam from the scriptures
Nilkanth Varni during his travels
Traditional iconographical portrait of Swaminarayan