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Jamnagar has been known since ancient times as Little Kashi, and sanctified on numerous occasions by Bhagwan Swaminarayan and the parmahansas of the Swaminarayan Sampraday.Jamnagar is also an important industrial center of Gujarat.There, on Wednesday 8 October 2008, the auspicious Shilanyas Ceremony for a new BAPS shikharbaddh mandir was performed by Pramukh Swami Maharaj.For more information

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HDH Pramukh swami maharaj celebrated Janmashtami utsav at Atladara. Find photos of the divine utsav.

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HDH Pramukh swami celebrated Rakshabandahn at VVNagar. Find photos and video of the event here.

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મુલાકાતો દરમ્યાન એક યુવકે સ્વામીશ્રીને પૂછ્યું : 'ગૃહસ્થાશ્રમમાં બ્રહ્મચર્ય કઈ રીતે રહે ?'સ્વામીશ્રીએ કહ્યું : 'ગૃહસ્થને તો 'એક નારી સદા બ્રહ્મચારી.' એક પત્નીવ્રત. એણે બીજે વૃત્તિ ન રાખવી. પત્ની સાથે વ્યવહાર, પણ બીજી કોઈ પણ સ્ત્રી હોય તો એને મા ને બહેન સમજવી. અને અમારે સંતોએ અષ્ટ પ્રકારે બ્રહ્મચર્ય રાખવાનું હોય.'યુવકે પૂછ્યું : 'મૅરેજ ન કરીએ અને બ્રહ્મચર્ય રાખવું હોય તો આ સાધુનાં કપડાં પહેરવાં

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HDH Pramukh Swami Maharaj's sevak Sadhu Narayancharan swami ask this ashirvad 2 years back on the holy day of Rakshabandan.

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After a long time HDH Param Pujya Pramukh swami maharaj is visiting Vallabh Vidya Nagar Chatralaya. It is well known truth that bapa loves chatralaya's yuvaks so much. Find some of the photographs of this divine visit.

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Shri Karsanjibhai Indraji Vyas, who was popularly known as Krishnaji Ada, was born on auspicious day of Shravan sud 5, Samvat 1890. He was great devotee of AksharPurshotam. Lets celebrate Kirshnaji's birthday by remebering some of his prasangs.Nischay of Gunatitanand Swami as Akshar brahm:Once, the Krishnaji Ada accompanied some satsangis to Junagadh for the darshan of Aksharbrahman Gunatitanand

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Be it a solar or lunar eclipse, the rules to follow before, during and after the eclipse are as follows: Before the eclipse: One should not eat 12 hours before the solar eclipse begins. One can drink water.

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The first anniversary of the inauguration of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir was celebrated on July 13, 2008 with prayers, classical devotional music, discourses and children’s programs. Here is the slide show of this event.

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Place and Date : 11th January, 1988. Bombay.Swamishri was reading a handwritten magazine produced by the children of Borivali. In it, a child had written to Swamishri asking for his address.Narayancharan Swami on behalf of everyone present asked, "Tell us then.""Maharaj has said so Himself; hasn't He?" Swamishri said."But what?" the sadhus urged.Swamishri explained, "When Shreeji Maharaj wrote

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28th August, 1989. Atladra. As Swamishri made his way to the room after the assembly, Dharmacharan Swami asked on behalf of Haka Bapu, an old devotee from Shastriji Maharaj's time. "He is asking, 'Am I to come along with you?' " Swamishri affirmed, "Yes of course. Now he is with us all the way." Dharmacharan Swami conveyed back the message. "Bapu! Your're fixed all the way to Bombay."

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Once Swamishri was taking his lunch at the Amdavad temple. Swamishri placed a piece of amrutpaak, a milk sweetmeat, from Thakorji's thaal into his mouth. It tasted off, but Swamishri's face gave nothing away. He subtly asked his attendant Krishnavallabh Swami to taste it. He agreed with Swamishri. Sitting in front of Swamishri was the head of the Sankari temple, Prabhuswarup Swami. Swamishri gave

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IntroductionThe day of full moon, Purnima, in the month of Ashadh is traditionally celebrated as Guru Purnima by Hindus. Also known as Vyas Purnima, the day is celebrated in remembrance and veneration to sage Ved Vyas. He is the Adi (original) Guru of the Hindu Dharma, who classified the Vedas, wrote the eighteen Puranas and the Mahabharat. On this day, the Guru is offered Pujan (worship)by the

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In 1986, Swamishri stayed in Sankari for eight days. On the second day he called me and said, "I was thinking about feeding the poor backward class people from the village. How many are there exactly?" However, neither Ramanbhai, the sadhus nor myself were too keen about this idea as these people regularly got drunk and caused trouble, so why should we give food to people like that? One day

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Lets look at the video of Rathyatra celebration.

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The ancient festival of Rath Yatra was celebrated in the presence of Pramukh Swami Maharaj in Sarangpur on 4 July 2008. Thousands of devotees were present as Swamishri performed pujan and abhishek of the murti of Shri Nilkanth Varni to be consecrated in the Abhishek Mandapam in Bhavnagar

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This video is compilation of Pu. Yogiji Maharaj's last trip to London in 1970 and then Pu. Pramukh Swami Maharaj's subsequent trips to London and other places.

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SURAT: In recognition of World Environment Day, BAPS Charities organized a children's Environmental Awareness cycle rally to highlight some of the environmental issues and concerns that countries and communities face across the world. The rally was held in southern Gujarat in Surat. It saw over 2500 young participants reach out far and wide to draw attention to climate change, conservation,

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Famous Kisutu Street in the Dar es Salaam city centre, now apparently going by the name of ’PRAMUKH SWAMI’, Yakoub (The Deputy Mayor of llala Municipality) said his office received requests and suggestions for the new name from the Kisutu Ward development committee early last year, and in December the municipal council permitted the change of name. He conceded that many people are wondering how

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A new £2m Hindu temple could be opened within 12 months.Work has already started on the impressive domed building in the heart of Wellingborough, which will serve followers of the Swaminarayan sect of Hinduism.Community leaders believe the temple in Mill Road will allow volunteers to serve a growing as 12,800 new homes are built in the town under the Core Spatial Strategy.Eager to see how the new

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The Akshardham temple in Delhi has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world's largest Hindu temple complex.Michael Witty, a senior member of the Guinness World Record Main Management Committee, presented the awards to Bochasanvasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sansthan (BAPS) under two categories: Most Hindu temples consecrated by a single person and secondly, the

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On that same tour of Calcutta, an exhibition of my paintings had been arranged. One particular day, the famous Bengali writer Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya was scheduled to pay a visit to the exhibition. I happened to be stuck without a jod to accompany me to the exhibition. Everyone was busy in something or another, and besides, there weren't many of us anyway. Understandably I was getting rather

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