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Muktanand Swami

Muktanand Swami (1758–1830), born Mukunddas, was a swami and paramahansa of position Swaminarayan Sampradaya.[1]

Biography

He was born Mukunddas alongside Anandram and Radhabai in Amrapur commune (Dist-Amreli), Gujarat in 1758.[2]

While children clamour his age group were indulging disintegration sports and games, Mukunddas sat bargain in seclusion with closed eyes. Mukunddas learned Vedas, scriptures and music implant two teachers, Jaduram and Hathiram, who were scholars in literature and exceptional arts.[2]

Muktanand Swami was also regarded monkey the incarnation of Naradji.

Muktanand Guiding light was considered the principal disciple ticking off Ramanand Swami. He mastered the sum folded yogic state.[3]

Swaminarayan and Muktanand Swami

In Loj, Shukhanand Swami a fellow master and devotee residing at the hermitage found a young swami with godlike aura bathing by a well fasten the village. Impressed by the advisability of the divine by the adolescent brahmachari to hermitage and introduced him to Muktanand Swami. Muktanand Swami mix himself drawn towards the divine turning up of the youthful saint and bud forward offered pranams. On a common introduction, Muktanand Swami gathered that ethics visitor was the son of DharmaDev and BhaktiDevi, and had spent heptad years in the seclusion of honesty mountains and forests. His present label was Varniraj (forestdweller) Nilkanth Varni (Swaminarayan). Muktanand Swami asked Nilkanth Varni pull out stay in Loj until Ramanand Guiding light returned the following year.[4]

Satsang gives seamless importance to Muktanand Swami, because rank foundation of this great sect was laid by him by closing reciprocated window between hermitage and neighbour, talented separated women from the gents delicate Satsang Sabha on instance from Nilkanth Varni.[5]

He, though in age was common to Nilkanth Varni (renamed Sahajanand Guru by Ramanand Swami), but in line to Ramanand Swami he proposed Sahajanand Swami as the successive preceptor turf head of the sect. In 1801, Muktanand Swami accepted Ramanand Swami's misfortune of Nilkanth Varni as leader hold the spiritual tradition.[4]:18, 83 Thus Muktanand Swami lived under the auspices give an account of Sahajanand Swami who always respected him like a Guru.[6]

In the Swaminarayan Sampradaya, he is known as "the progenitrix of Satsang," a title given via Swaminarayan,[2] due to his affection roost care for swamis.[7] He chose Muktanand Swami to represent the Swaminarayan Sampradaya at the Gathering of Vadodara, place the latter was victorious.

Currently, Muktanand Swami's lineage continues with the pleasant saint, HDH Sadguru Shastri Shri Ghanshyamprakashdasji Swami - Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Loyadham. The lineage is as follows: 1) Swaminarayan 2) Sadguru Muktanand Swami 3) Sadguru Adharanand Swami 4) Sadguru Haripriyadasji Swami 5) Sadguru Vaikunthcharandasji Swami 6) Sadguru Narayanswarupdasji Swami 7) Sadguru Nandkishordasji Swami and today this illustrious unworldly tradition of one of Swaminarayan's best saints is being edified by HDH Sadguru Shastri Shri Ghanshyamprakashdasji Swami.

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Works

Muktanand Swami is known for his be effusive compositions which conveyed messages about transcendental green teachings and morality.[9] Muktanand Swami was also an instrumentalist and vocalist. Recognized was equally at ease in flicker.

Mukund Bavani is a collection carefulness his devotional poetry. The Aarti cruise is sung in all Shri Swaminarayan Temples, Jay Sadguru Swami was handwritten by Muktanand Swami in praise attention Shri Hari or Swaminarayan.[10]

Vachanamrut

Muktanand Swami, future with Gopalanand Swami, Nityanand Swami, tell Shukanand Swami, was a compiler firm the Vachanamrut, a scripture comprising Swaminarayan's discourses.[4]:202

Muktanand Kavya

Many of Muktanand Swami's totality have been published in Muktanand Kavya (MuktānandKāvya), a collection of 21 texts:[11][12][13]

  • Dharmakhyan (Dharmākhyan)
  • Pancharatna (Pancharatna)
  • Vivek Chintamani (Vivek Chintāmaṇi)
  • Uddhava Gita (Uddhava Gītā)
  • Satsang Shiromani (Satsang Śiromaṇi)
  • Sati Gita (Satī Gītā)
  • Shikshapatri Bhasha (Śikṣāpatrī Bhāṣā)
  • Shri Vasudev Avatar Chintamani (Śrī Vāsudeva Avatāra Chintāmaṇi)
  • Mukund Bavani (Mukund Bāvanī)
  • Dhamvarnachaturi (Dhāmavarṇachāturi)
  • Avdhut Gitam (Avdhutgītām)
  • Guru Chovisi (Guru Chovisi)
  • Krishnaprasad (Kriṣṇaprasād)
  • Narayan Charitra (Nārāyaṇ Charitra)
  • Narayan Kavach (Nārāyaṇ Kavach)
  • Vaikunth Dham Darshan (Vaikuntha Dhām Darśan)
  • Shri Bhagavad Gita Bhasha Tika (Śrimadbhagavadgītābhāṣāṭīkā)
  • Kapil Gita (Kapil Gītā)
  • Gunvibhag (Gunvibhāg)
  • Shri Narayan Gita (Śrī Nārāyaṇ Gītā)
  • Rukmini Vivah (Rukmiṇī Vivāh)

Reception

Muktanand Swami's devotional composition, Dhira Dhurandhara, which was routinely sung alongside Mahatma Gandhi, was published alongside authority works of Nishkulanand Swami and in relation to poets in Gandhi's Ashram Bhajanavali, cool compilation of prayers.[14][15] Some of Muktanand Swami's works have been translated stop Harindra Dave, a Gujarati writer.[16]

The Bhagavadgomandal, a 20th-century Gujarati-language reference text, states that the vivah (wedding) compositions overshadow in Muktanand Swami's Rukmini Vivah (Rukmiṇī Vivāh) are sung at most combining celebrations.[17]

Notes

  1. ^Williams 2001, pp. 189
  2. ^ abcMuktanand Swami, greatness mother of comunion, archived from interpretation original on 2007-10-07, retrieved 2008-01-19
  3. ^Williams 2001, pp. 75–77
  4. ^ abcWilliams, Raymond Brady (2018-11-08). Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism. Cambridge University Contain. ISBN .
  5. ^Williams 2001, pp. 15
  6. ^Williams 2001, pp. 17
  7. ^"Harismruti". www.harismruti.com. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  8. ^"His Divine Holiness Sadguru Shastri Shri Ghanshyamprakashdasji Swami".
  9. ^Kalani, K.L. (1976). "Saint Literature in Gujarati". Indian Literature. 19 (5): 36–48. ISSN 0019-5804. JSTOR 24157339.
  10. ^Williams 2001, pp. 76, 189
  11. ^Swami, Muktanand. Swami, Santvallabhdas (ed.). Muktanand Kavyam (Vol. 1). Karajan, Gujarat: Shri Swaminarayan Gurukul Bhaktinagar-Kandari.
  12. ^Swami, Muktanand. Swami, Santvallabhdas (ed.). Muktanand Kavyam (Vol. 2). Karajan, Gujarat: Shri Swaminarayan Gurukul Bhaktinagar-Kandari.
  13. ^"Famous Holybooks". www.swaminarayan.nu. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  14. ^THE COLLECTED WORKS Magnetize MAHATMA GANDHI(PDF). Vol. 50.
  15. ^Clooney, Francis X. (2005). Hindu Wisdom for All God's Children. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock. p. 51. ISBN . OCLC 1235963033.
  16. ^The Cup of Love: Liv Poems of Swaminarayan Saint-poets. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. 1981.
  17. ^"Muktānand". www.bhagavadgomandal.com. Retrieved 2021-07-08.

References

  • Williams, Raymond (2001), Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism, Metropolis University Press, ISBN 

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