Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bhuj

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Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bhuj
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Narnarayan Dev murti at this temple
Geography
Country India
State Gujarat
District Kutch
Location Bhuj
Culture
Sanctum Narnarayan Dev and Harikrishna Maharaj.
History
Date built 15 May 1823
Creator Swaminarayan
Website www.swaminarayan.faith

Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bhuj (Devnagari: श्री स्वामिनारायण मंदिर, भुज) is a Hindu temple in Bhuj. This temple (mandir) that was constructed by lord Swaminarayan, founder of the Swaminarayan Sampraday. [1] [2]

Hindu temple house of worship in Hinduism

A Hindu temple is a symbolic house, seat and body of god. It is a structure designed to bring human beings and gods together, using symbolism to express the ideas and beliefs of Hinduism. The symbolism and structure of a Hindu temple are rooted in Vedic traditions, deploying circles and squares. It also represents recursion and equivalence of the macrocosm and the microcosm by astronomical numbers, and by "specific alignments related to the geography of the place and the presumed linkages of the deity and the patron". A temple incorporates all elements of Hindu cosmos—presenting the good, the evil and the human, as well as the elements of Hindu sense of cyclic time and the essence of life—symbolically presenting dharma, kama, artha, moksa, and karma.

Bhuj City in Gujarat, India

Bhuj is a Municipality and District Headquarter of Kutch District in the state of Gujarat, India.

Swaminarayan founder of Swaminarayan sect

Swaminarayan, also known as Sahajanand Swami, was a yogi, and an ascetic whose life and teachings brought a revival of central Hindu practices of dharma, ahimsa and brahmacharya. He is believed by followers as a manifestation of God.

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History

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Bhuj Swaminarayan Temple Logo
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The temple, part destroyed by the earthquake
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Main gate of the temple

This mandir comes under the Narnarayan Dev Gadi. Senior devotees Gangarambhai jethi Sundarjibhai, Jigneshwarbhai and others from the Bhuj region of Kutch went to Gadhada where God Swaminarayan was attending a Fuldol festival. In that festival, the devotees of Bhuj met Swaminarayan and requested him to construct a temple in Bhuj. [3]

Gadhada city in Gujarat, India

Gadhada is a city and a municipality in Botad District in the state of Gujarat, India. Gadhada is situated at bank of River Ghela.

God Swaminarayan asked Vaishnavananand Swami to proceed with a team of the saints to Bhuj and construct a temple. Vaishnavanand Swami and the accompanying saints went to Bhuj in 1822, camped at the place neighbouring the land of temple drew plans of the temple, complex, executed the plans with minute details and within a short span of one year, they built a temple abode of NarNarayan Dev. [3]

Satsang in the Kutch region was spread by Late Guru Ramanand Swami. He constantly visited Bhuj and other places in Kutch.

Satsang / Satsanga / Satsangam is a word which comes from Sanskrit, meaning "to associate with true people", to be in the company of true people - sitting with a sat guru, or in a group meeting seeking that association.

God Swaminarayan had graced this temple in the western belt of India and had himself installed the idols of Narnarayan dev and his own form - Harikrishna Maharaj was installed in central sanctum sanctorum of the temple by Acharya Ayodyaprashadji maharaj. Besides these manifestations of God at the central dome there under the eastern dome, are seated RadhaKrishna Dev, Harikrishna Maharaj and in the western dome Ghanshyam Maharaj. Roop Chowki - the main square of the inner temple-houses the images of Ganapati and Hanuman.

Hanuman The divine monkey companion of Rama in South Asia and Southeast Asia

In Hinduism, Hanuman is an ardent devotee of Lord Rama. Lord Hanuman Known as the teacher of Celibacy, Hanuman was a Naistika, Nithya Brahmachari, Complete Celibate, and one of the central character of Indian Epic Ramayana found in the Indian subcontinent. As one of the Chiranjivi, he is also mentioned in several other texts, such as the Mahabharata, the various Puranas and some Jain, Buddhist, and Sikh texts. Several later texts also present him as Son or RudraAmsam of Shiva. Hanuman is the son of Anjana and Kesari and is also son of the wind-god Vayu, who according to several stories, played a role in his birth.

Akshar Bhavan in the temple treasures the personal items of Swaminarayan that He has used in His life.

Gujarat earthquake

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New Temple

The earthquake on 26 January 2001 destroyed much of the city of Bhuj, including this temple associated with the founder of the Swaminarayan Sampraday. The saints and satsangis of Kutch residing in India and satsangis living abroad, have resolved to construct a new temple a short distance away from the site. [4] [5]

2001 Gujarat earthquake January 26, 2001 earthquake in western India

The 2001 Gujarat earthquake, also known as the Bhuj earthquake, occurred on 26 January, India's 52nd Republic Day, at 08:46 AM IST and lasted for over 2 minutes. The epicentre was about 9 km south-southwest of the village of Chobari in Bhachau Taluka of Kutch District of Gujarat, India.

Swaminarayan Sampraday, formally called Uddhav Sampraday, is a Hindu sect propagated by Swaminarayan. Swaminarayan was handed the leadership of the Uddhav Sampraday by his guru Ramanand Swami to continue to propagate the teachings and philosophy of Vishishtadvaita, which originates from the Sri Sampradaya. His main teaching was that Sri krishna purushottam narayan the resider of akshardham at midst of golok is supreme and should alone be worshipped

Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bhuj (New temple)

Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is a temple complex in Bhuj, Kutch district, Gujarat which is managed by Nar Narayan Dev Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday, a sect of Hinduism. The inauguration ceremony of the temple held from 15 to 23 May 2010.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Swaminarayan Temples".
  2. ↑ Williams 2001 , p. 29
  3. 1 2 "Life and Faith of Swaminarayan: Bhuj - Kutch".
  4. ↑ "Swaminarayan Temples: Bhuj".
  5. ↑ Someshwar, Savera R (27 January 2002). "'We have to get on with our lives'". Rediff. Retrieved 21 October 2018.

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