Swaminarayan, named Ghanshyam Pande by his parents, was born about two and a half centuries ago in in Chhapaiya, a village near Ayodhya. He was a yogi and ascetic, became known as Swaminarayan. He left his home at the age of 11, took the name of Nilkanth Varni and travelled across India. After a seven-year journey, his travels as a yogi eventually concluded in Loj, a village in the Junagadh district of Gujarat.
His birth took place in Chhapaiya, Gonda District near Ayodhya where there is a temple. Separately, the lower floor of the adjacent construction have the birth site and other relics
The Uddhav Sampradaya he joined and subsequently headed, became known as the Swaminarayan Sampradaya, BAPS — the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, in full the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha — is a worldwide Hindu fellowship within the Swaminarayan tradition of Hinduism, dedicated to individual spiritual growth and to the service of God's creation. They have several temples in India as anlso abroad.
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