12 November 2025

Myth about Swaminarayan

In a few previous posts, I  have mentioned about Swaaminaaraayan places of worship with headquarters in Gujarat. I had always thought that 'Swaminaaraayan' meant an incarnation or manifestation of Shree Mahaa Vishnu. 

Day before yesterday I was listening to a divine discourse by one of the elders in our Madhwaa Community. He was mentioning about ISKCON, Swaminaaraayan faith etc. 

This aroused my curiosity and yesterday I visited Swamynaaraayan website; I found that the name implied a sage and not any incarnation or manifestation of Lord Shree Mahaa Vishnu. 

I heard from a spiritual discourse that Swamy Naaraayan, Shrdi Sai Baabaa etc considered themselves to be incarnations of God. Their thinking is meaningless and wrong. Human beings such those mentioned above can never claim to be incarnations of God. 



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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.