On 8 January 2023, BAPS devotees from the UK and Europe presented a creative programme titled, ‘In His Own Words: BAPS UK and Europe Day’ to tens of thousands assembled in Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar celebrating Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s contributions to fostering the cultural and spiritual heritage of thousands in UK and Europe. Following the programme, His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj and dignitaries from around the world paid tribute to Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s inspiration of personal spirituality, Hindu mandirs and humanitarian service in UK and Europe.Evening Assembly Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s tireless spiritual travels resulted in the spread of faith and goodwill across the world. This week at Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar, devotees from different countries are paying tribute to Pramukh Swami Maharaj for connecting them to their spiritual and cultural roots. Today’s evening assembly, dedicated as ‘BAPS UK and Europe Day’, began at 5.00 pm.The programme commenced with o
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Celebrating the power of youths : Pramukh Swami maharaj Nagar
An audience of tens of thousands gathered to commemorate ‘Youth Day: Celebrating the Power of Youth’ at Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar on 3 January 2023, the BAPS Youth Wing presented an engaging programme of inspirational dramas, devotional songs, videos and speeches that paid tribute to Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s selfless love and tireless efforts for the moral, spiritual, social and academic development of hundreds of thousands of youths around the world. Following the programme by youths, His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj and dignitaries paid tribute to Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s visionary leadership in channeling the power of hundreds of thousands of youths worldwide towards socially constructive and spiritually uplifting activities. Talking about the youths at BAPS institute, Additionally, BAPS youths have come together in gigantic conventions, including the 25,000 youths who came together for the International Youth Festival in 1990 and the 60,000 youths who came together i
View More Celebrating the power of youths : Pramukh Swami maharaj NagarCelebrating ‘Education Day’ : Pramukh Swami Maharaj nagar
Education day was celebrated on 30th December 2022, in the month long celebration. Pramukh Swami Maharaj worked his entire life to foster humanity and spirituality in every individual. Aware of the importance of education for the individual and the nation and inspired by Bhagwan Swaminarayan’s instruction to foster the propagation knowledge, Pramukh Swami Maharaj set up a wide range of educational institutions that have nourished the character and academic potential of hundreds of thousands. Beginning as a small seed with BAPS’s first student hostel at Vidyanagar in 1965, under the inspiration of Pramukh Swami Maharaj and currently Mahant Swami Maharaj, BAPS’s educational activities have flourished into a great tree with branches in many centres. Inspired by Pramukh Swami Maharaj, close to forty educational institutions and student hostels nurture the educational and character development of over 22,500 students annually. Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s unparalleled educational ser
View More Celebrating ‘Education Day’ : Pramukh Swami Maharaj nagarCelebrating ‘Family Unity day’ : Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar
‘Family Unity day’ was celebrated on 29th of December, His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj and several dignitaries paid homage to Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s efforts to strengthen family unity in millions of homes around the world as tens of thousands gathered to commemorate ‘Family Unity Day: Celebrating Family Values’ at Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar on 29 December 2022. It is said that Pramukh Swami Himself visited around 25,000 homes in order to strengthen family unity and promoted the innovative concept of the family home assembly (ghar sabha) as an effective solution to familial strife.This campaign built on the 2003 ‘Ideal Family Campaign’ organized on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of BAPS Children’s Activities during which 17,500 boys and girls had visited 435,000 homes to promote Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s message of family values. The campaign had resulted in 250,000 people pledging to daily bow down to their parents, 193,000 people pledging to live an addiction-fre
View More Celebrating ‘Family Unity day’ : Pramukh Swami Maharaj NagarCelebrating ‘Seva Day’ : pramukh Swami Maharaj nagar
His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj and several dignitaries paid homage to Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s selfless service to millions around the world as tens of thousands gathered to commemorate ‘Seva Day: Celebrating Selfless Service’ at Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar on 28 December 2022.Also read: Day 3 : Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar.Evening assembly : In an assembly of tens of thousands at Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar on 28 December, several leaders and dignitaries joined His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj to pay tribute to Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s tireless and selfless services to society around the world. Pramukh Swami personified his own universal teaching, ‘In the joy of others lies our own.’Adarshjivandas Swami, the biographer of Pramukh Swami Maharaj, narratedepisodes from the life of Pramukh Swami Maharaj in his series ‘Pramukh Charitam’. He explained, “The replica of New Delhi’s Akshardham at the heart of the Festival grounds is one of the most well-known Hindu templ
View More Celebrating ‘Seva Day’ : pramukh Swami Maharaj nagarCelebrating Vicharan Day: Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar
In an assembly of tens of thousands at Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar on 27 December, national leaders and dignitaries joined His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj to pay tribute to Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s incessant travels over 45 years to ignite spirituality in people’s lives around the world. Pramukh Swami personified the ancient scriptural message, ‘A sadhu is someone who travels for the benefit of society.’Pramukh Swami Maharaj travelled tirelessly to 51 countries and 17,000 villages, towns and cities, visited 250,000 homes, and personally counselled over 800,000 people. Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s travels were beyond comprehension. For example, in 1975, he visited 645 villages; in 1976, he visited 728 villages; in 1977, he visited 663 villages!Also read: Day 3 : Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar.Talking about the evening assembly, the celebration day of Vicharan was started at 4:45pm, Adarshjivandas Swami, the biographer of Pramukh Swami Maharaj, narrated episodes from the life of Pr
View More Celebrating Vicharan Day: Pramukh Swami Maharaj NagarCelebrating the Sant Samelan: Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar.
Sant Sammelan day was being celebrated o 25th of December at the pramukh Swami maharaj Nagar, where over around 250 Mahants and Acharyas showed their presence at the event in Ahmedabad. A special convention was being held in presence of great Aacharyas and Sants from all over the country.Bhagwan Swaminarayan rejuvenated the monastic heritage during his presence on earth over 240 years ago. He brought about a peaceful transformation in society by inspiring thousands of people to live a spiritually moral life through the more than 3,000 sadhus (Hindu monks) that he had ordained. Bhagwan Swaminarayan’s fifth spiritual successor, His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj, brought further glory to this sacred sadhu heritage throughout the world.As many of the saints were present at the event, all of them had shared their visions about the life. Pujyapad Parmatmanand Ji Maharaj, President of Bharatiya Acharya Sabha: “I firstly bow to the globally revered Pramukh Swami Maharaj. The land of Gujar
View More Celebrating the Sant Samelan: Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar.Celebrating health and Spirituality day : Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar
On the occasion of ‘Health & Spirituality Day: Celebrating Inner Well-Being’, illustrious dignitaries from the medical and spiritual fields joined His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj at Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar. Tens of thousands of devotees participated in the evening programme, which featured speeches and presentations from senior swamis and dignitaries who paid tribute to Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s tireless efforts to provide adequate health services to all in need. The programme began at its usual time of 5.15 pm with prayers and devotional hymns. Adarshjivan Swami, the biographer of Pramukh Swami Maharaj, described Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s unique work of combining physical health with inner spiritual wellness. He said, “The bamboo sculpture of Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s hands joined in prayer at the festival ground reminds us that prayer was his bedrock in all situations in life. Waking up at 3am in London to pray for rains in India or hour-long prayers for the betterment o
View More Celebrating health and Spirituality day : Pramukh Swami Maharaj NagarDay 6 : Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar
The 5th day of 1 month long celebration at Pramukh Swami maharaj Nagar was celebrated as the ‘International Human Solidarity Day’. Where Leaders of various faiths gathered for interfaith dialogue honouring Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s spiritually driven vision for human solidarity, world peace, and inter-faith harmony. The event was the held in the presence of tens of thousands at Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar in Ahmedabad in celebration of United Nations International Human Solidarity Day on Tuesday 20 December. The message of Pramukh Swami Maharaj encouraging interfaith harmony was the central theme of the programme titled ‘International Human Solidarity Day.’ Where other Religious leaders and representatives of various faiths solidified interfaith bonds at Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar. Pramukh Swami Maharaj has worked tirelessly to engage with people and leaders of all faiths, championing peace over conflict, dialogue over discord, love over hatred. He respected people of all
View More Day 6 : Pramukh Swami Maharaj NagarDay 5 : Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar.
His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj along with other leading swamis and dignitaries celebrated Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s devotion to the guru before an assembly of tens of thousands during the fifth evening programme of the Pramukh Swami Maharaj Centenary Celebrations in Ahmedabad on Monday 19 December. Reflecting on the role and importance of devotion to the guru in Hinduism, dignitaries from various fields remembered how Pramukh Swami Maharaj exemplified and inspired these ideals in millions worldwide.The programm started at 5:15 pm with Devotional songs paying homage to Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s devotion to the guru. Then the programm was started when BAPS scholar Adarshjivandas Swami narrated incidents in Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s life explaining how people experienced him to be an ideal guru. While narrating he said, “Every corner of this festival reflects Pramukh Swami's divine life. When we observe Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s 30-foot sculpted image we gain a glimpse of his sim
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