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SCRIPTURES

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SHIKSHAPATRI

Lord Swaminarayan extracted the essence from many existing scriptures and wrote a code of conduct for the followers only in 212 verses. It was originally written in Sanskrit. He has written in ‘Shikshapatri’, the behaviour of an ideal human life with piousness of thoughts, speech and behaviour along with morality. He has given in it the guidance for daily rites and the behaviour in the people of society.

VACHANAMRUT

Vachanamritm is the nectar of all the spiritual and philosophical knowledge.The great Saints likeMuktanand Swami, Gopalanand Swami, Nityanand Swami, and Sukanand Swami heard and compiled the original words of Lord Swaminarayan and got them authenticated by Him. These vachanamritms were thousands in number but Lord has selected 262 only.

Each Vachanamritm starts with the day, month, year, time, place where the discourse was given, who were present at the discourse, who asked questions etc.Shatanand Swami has translated Vachanamritm in Sanskrit and is called “HarivakyaSudhasindhu”.

SATSANGIJIVAN
Shreemad Satsangijivan is the main divine scripture describing the life of Lord Swaminarayan from his arrival to the earth and departure from the earth. It also describes His Philosophy and profound spiritual knowledge with ardent staunch devotion, non-attachment towards worldly objects, the way for ultimate redemption, the obstacles therein, the way to get rid of the obstacles, the ecstasy and the bliss in Akshardham.
Lord Swaminarayan gave omniscient power (trikaldarshan) to the great Saint SatanandSwami, enjoined him to write the philosophy, the movement and the life activities of Lord for the wide spread of his theory. It is written in Sanskrit. Lord Himself has authenticated it. It contains 319 chapters and 17627 verses.
BHAKTACHINTAMANI

Bhaktachintamani is composed by Saint Niskulanand Swami. It contains 164 chapters in Gujarati language in poetic form.Lord Himself has authenticated it. It describes many of the Lord’s activities during his existence on this earth. It also describes all of the vishnuyagas, festivals, the obstacles in preaching, the temples etc.