Swaminarayan Sampradaya
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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, characterized by the worship of its ch
Acharya Ajendraprasad & Acharya Koshalendraprasad
Swaminarayan temple Ahmedabad 1866
Mahant Swami Maharaj, current guru and president of BAPS
Boy offering personal worship
Lakshmi Narayan Dev Gadi
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The Lakshmi Narayan Dev Gadi is one of the two gadis that together form the Swaminarayan Sampradaya. It is headquartered at the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Vadtal and controls the Dakshin Vibhag Lekh.
Swaminarayan Sampradaya
…of God, and encouraged the creation of a scriptural tradition. In 1826, in a legal document titled the Lekh, Swaminarayan created two dioceses, the Laxmi Narayan Dev Gadi (Vadtal Gadi) and Nar Narayan Dev Gadi (Ahmedabad Gadi), with a hereditary leadership of acharyas and their wives, who were authorized to install statues of deities…
Ghanshyam Maharaj in the Akshar Bhuvan at the Lakshminarayan Dev Gadi headquarters
Illustration of Swaminarayan writing the Shiskhapatri