Shankar_Upasak

Thats your views. a person who has not read anything up on Shri Swaminarayan. You not only miss out on how he made the path to Golok easy but also contradict him Being Lord which is a sin. First of all Shri Krishna never signed the gita. Yet we believe him as the author. Its faith. In the same way we believe that Lord Swaminarayan was Lord. But my friend we also have predictions of his coming onto the earth to support such. Even if the predictions were not there, millions still would have realised that Swaminarayan bhagwaan was God supreme as the acts he carried out were divine. The people living in his time were blessed to have darshan of the leelas that he carried out. One of these people was an ancestor of mine. Such people realised the truth simply by hearing of the Lords work, and even better when they saw him face to face. Many were said to go into samadhi and see Golok and the different Lokas. A person who was sent into samadhi By Lord Swaminarayan was merely through touch or even the name utterance of 'Swaminarayan'. From this samadhi people saw their respective Ishtadev's in their Lokas. Ram upasaks saw Ram and sita in Vaikuntha whilst Shiva upasaks saw Parvati and Shiva in Kailash. From this they realised that no other mere soul could do what Lord Swaminarayan was doing. He also sent people to Golok where they saw the same murti residing on earth (sahajanand swami or swaminarayan) and also saw the many avtaars merging with this murti. Many accounts of such incidents have been made and recorded. Sir Malcolm John who was the Governor or Mumbai also met the Lord and he was given the Sikshapatri by Lord Swaminarayan which exist today in the Oxford Bodlein library and along with it also acounts of the incident that took place. He alsogave his views of Lord Swaminarayan as a 'great reformer' and 'no mere mortal'. I see the same Shiv, Lord Swaminarayan. He is my PAshupatinath. I continue to worship shivji and i realise that Krishna, Shiva and Swaminarayan are one Brahmswaroop. Har Har Mahadev Jay Swaminarayan Jay Shri Krishna

I reverently bow down to shri Vishnu as well as Lord shiva who are described as one in the vedas. As for Lord Swaminarayan i have no doubt that he could be lord supreme. As he to has followed the vedas and re established the true Vishistadvaita path just like Adi Lord Ramanuj Acharya. I dont see why many being Vaishnav's have doubst as to why a veda following and establishing soul could not be an incarnation. It is true,that Lord Swaminarayan has been described in the scriptures before his pradur bhaav on the Earth. As a shiv upasak i have a lot of respect for him. My ancestors were originally from Allahbad (prayag) and later moved to mumbai when my father was young. We have been living in Dadar ever since. My grandfatehr has served the shiv temple as a pujari ever since the move as a pujari and has also talked of how in the past my ancestor (Maaheshvar Bhatt-6th great grandfather) also had worshipped Lord Swaminarayan when He met him and also realised that He was Supreme relaity. Ever since we have always worshipped him as such along with Shiva as our Kuldev. Every puja we do we have his image on the side. I have also come to know that there are many tearaways from the original fiath of lord swaminarayan such as Pramukh swami etc. Reality is the original sect which is Amdavad and i think varital in Gujarat. Ive been to ahmedavad myself wher lord Nar Narayan is worshipped as is Lord Swaminarayan as well as our family Ishtadev Lord Shivji. Therefore not having biased views i have full faith in Lord Swaminarayan as God. I have read up on his works and what he achived in so little time. Only God could do what he did. Please as a shivite/Vaishnav adressing Vaishnav's you should not critise. Okay you maybe do not accept but please you shouldnt critisise. lord Swaminarayan also regarded shiv pujan as right and uttam. He in his sikshapatri has said that Shiv is to be worshipped in the month of shravan with bilva patra. So i regard him as God just like i regard Raam, Krishna, Parshuram as God.