Biography of Lord Swaminarayan. Swaminarayan Bhagwan incarnated on earth, along with His dham and some of His muktas, to establish ekantik dharma, and grant kalyan to those who became His bhaktas. He also incarnated to take mumukshu bhaktas to Akshardham, by imparting knowledge of His svarup, dharma, vairagya, and bhakti. While on earth, He established ekantik dharma, which had been destroyed many years ago, and He destroyed adharma. He initiated over sadhus, of which were initiated as paramhans.
Also, He built mandirs, and installed murtis, which will always remain on earth. Yogiji Maharaj. Pramukh Swami Maharaj. Followers from all walks of life, of all talents and stations, of all positions and powers joined the flock of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. Scholars and music maestros, spiritual seekers and spiritual leaders came forth and took initiation. Bhagwan Swaminarayan was accepted as God Himself and the way of life He introduced came to be known as the Swaminarayan Sampraday.
The word 'Sampraday' emphasizes the fact that the Movement, its philosophy and principles have been continually guided and preserved, in all their purity, by an unbroken and untainted spiritual hierarchy of enlightened Gurus.
By 49, Bhagwan Swaminarayan completed His mission on earth and returned to His divine abode. Over 2 million devotees had experienced His divinity and hailed His purity. Six magnificent mandirs enshrined His spirituality and several scriptures encapsulated His knowledge. Yet His personality, in all its totality was preserved by His spiritual successor Gunatitanand Swami. But long before that He had begun to reveal that He would continue to be present on this earth through a succession of spiritual Gurus.
One day thousands of demons came to Nilkanth and try to kill him but Hanumanji came to help him and killed most of them. After a while when Nilkanth came out from dhyan Hanumanji offer him some fruits to eat and ask Nilkanth to allow him to live with Nilkanth for seva. But Nilkanth replied he is fine and he want to go alone and if he need him he will call Hanuman for now he told Hanuman to inform Icharambhai about him, he is fine and he also call them later.
In the mountains of Himalayas on the bank of river Gandaki in Nepal at Pulahashram near Muktanath Temple Nilkanth Varni started severe penance, standing on one leg, keeping both the hands raised upwards observing rigid fasting and chanting the Gayatri Mantra.
He being the God Supreme observed such austere penance in order to set an example to teach us that a man desirous of salvation should observe such austerity.
He was bare-footed Braving oppressive heat and torrential showers alike, he practiced rigorous penance, He sat in the water even when the weather was extremely chill. God can be realized only by such efforts along with ardent single-minded devotion that is what He taught us through His austere life.
After completing penance, Nilkanth Varni went to Butvel Butolnagar. The king of that place had no son. Looking a luminous personality, the king welcomed Him, offered his daughter and asked Him to become a king of that region.
Varni preached him the reality of life and the way for salvation and left. In the dense forests Nilkanth Varni met Gopal Yogi who was adept in Nirbij yog and was proficient in Astang yoga and was believing in God as only the formless divine light. Nilkanth Varni taught Gopal Yogi the Sabij Yoga, expounded him the ideal principles of image-worship revealed His true divine form to him and left for Adivarah.
From Adivarah, He went to Sirpur Sonepur. The king Sidhvallabh was devout. He invited Nilkanth Varni and served lovingly. There were many worshippers of the evil spirits, They envied Varni and directed some evil spirits to kill a serevant of the king who was entrusted to serve Varni.
Nilkanth Varni saved him. He got them rid of all the evil activities, made them to live the virtuous lives, showed them the real way of worship and left. There lived a Mantracharya adept in evil charms, hypnotism etc. He threatened and tried to kill Varni by invoking evil spirits but in vain. On the contrary, the evil spirits turned back to invoker Pibaik. Pibaik fell down and began to bleed profousely from nose and mouth. Nilkanth Varni saved him from evil spirits.
Pibaik realized that one whom he challenged was none else but God Supreme Himself. He begged for pardon. He left all evil activities and became a virtiuous and righteous devotee of God. There lived Nine lakhs yogis penancing severally yearning the darshan i. Nilkanth went there, embraced them all, blessed them all, for ecstatic bliss in Akshardham and left.
On the way to Rameshwaram, Nilkanth Varni saw a Sadhu named Sevakram lying by the roadside suffering from an acute stage of dysentery. No by passer cared for him. So he was crying. Nilkanth Varni pitied him and nursed him for two months. Sevakram had gold coins worth one thousand rupees. From this money, Varni brought cooking materials, cooked food and fed him, while Varni used to beg from the society for his food. Many a times, He could not get anything and had to fast.
Sevakram was cured after two months and became quite healthy. On the way to Rameshwaram he asked Varni to carry his luggage of about 20 Kgs. There are many means to please Lord Shree Swaminarayan. Amongst these, to have true loving devotion unto the Lord is the best means of all. One should develop this true loving chaste devotion unto the Lord, together with an understanding of the religious decree, spiritual knowledge and asceticism.
My divine formthat exists in Akshardham is the same as this human form that is visibleto you all, and is the very same divine, salvation-granting pratima form. There is no difference between these forms. Not even an iota of a difference exists between them. Vishishtam cha Vishishtam cha Vishishte Vishishtayoho adwaitam iti Vishishtadwaitam. By the grace of God, the distinct form of the Mukta becomes merged into the Murti of God, and there appears just one entity, the Lord.
The Sankalp and the Sankalpi , are exactly the same.
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