Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam (Study)
by Sadhu Gyanananddas | 2021 | 123,778 words
This page relates ‘Arrival in Gujarat� of the study on the Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam in Light of Swaminarayan Vachanamrut (Vacanamrita). His 18th-century teachings belong to Vedanta philosophy and were compiled as the Vacanamrita, revolving around the five ontological entities of Jiva, Ishvara, Maya, Aksharabrahman, and Parabrahman. Roughly 200 years later, Bhadreshdas composed a commentary (Bhasya) correlating the principles of Vachanamrut.
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4.2. Arrival in Gujarat
[Full title: Svāminārāyaṇa and His Tradition (2): Arrival in Gujarat]
Trudging northwards, He arrived in ܰṣṭ, Gujarat, on Ś屹ṇa 6, ṃvٲ 1856 (21.8.1799 CE), after seven years and over 12,000 km of arduous traveling. In the village Loja, He finally received a satisfactory explanation about the five realities, from a humble named Muktānanda 峾ī. He was the acting head of an ashram (monastery) belonging to 峾ī 峾ԲԻ岹, a notable religious leader in ܰṣṭ.[1] ī첹ṇṭ’s heart finally warmed on observing the purity and the strict disciplinary codes of ī of the s. Joining this order, He served humbly by washing clothes, utensils, collecting cow dung for fuel, and begging alms. He also taught ṣṭṃg-yoga to the s including Muktānanda. The young ī’s divinity affected them profoundly.
Nine months later, 峾ԲԻ岹 峾ī arrived from his touring. To his followers, he had long proclaimed himself as a drumbeater in a play, heralding the chief player's arrival. That player had arrived in the form of ī첹ṇṭ. 峾ԲԻ岹 峾ī initiated ī첹ṇṭ, renaming Him ԲԻ岹 峾ī and ⲹṇa Muni. One year later, in 1802 CE, 峾ԲԻ岹 峾ī, ceremoniously appointed twenty-one-year-old ԲԻ岹 峾ī as the Head of the Fellowship.[2]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Ibid., p.312
[2]:
Dave Harṣadarāya, Bhagvan 峾īnarayan-1, op.cit., pp. 376-377.