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BAPS Charities is a global charity that works to provide service through health awareness, educational services, humanitarian relief, environmental protection and preservation and community empowerment. [16] Annual health fairs are a key component of the health and wellness services BAPS Charities provides in Chicago.
The BAPS concurs that Akshar is the divine abode of Purushottam and "an eternally existing spiritual reality having two forms, the impersonal and the personal." [8] [89] [90]: 158 Followers of BAPS identify various scriptures and documented statements of Swaminarayan as supporting this understanding of Akshar within the Akshar-Purushottam Upasana.
Shree Swaminarayan Temple, Chicago, IL is a Swaminarayan Hindu temple located in the Chicago suburb of Itasca. [1] Opened in 1998, it comes under ISSO of the Nar Narayan Dev Gadi (Swaminarayan Sampraday). [2] It was built at the cost of $10 million, reportedly the most expensive Hindu temple in the Midwest at that time. [3]
Mahant Swami Maharaj (born Vinu Patel, 13 September 1933; [3] ordained Keshavjivandas Swami) is the present guru and president of the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), a major branch of the Swaminarayan Sampradaya, a Hindu denomination.
Swaminarayan and Gunatitanand Swami at a Baps Temple. Akshar-Purushottam Darshan (Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana [web 1]) or Aksarabrahma-Parabrahma-Darsanam, [1] "Akshar-Purushottam philosophy," is a designation used by BAPS as an alternative name for the Swaminarayan Darshana, Swaminarayan's view or teachings, to distinguish it from other Vedanta-traditions.
Chicago: Opened 2022 ISKCON Chicago [29] Chicago: Moved from Evanston to current location in 1980 Shree Ganesh Temple of Chicago [30] Chicago: First Hindu temple in Chicago's Little India [31] Hanuman Mandir of Greater Chicago [32] Glenview: Opened 2016 [32] Vivekananda Vedanta Society of Chicago [33] [34] Homer Glen: Established 1930. First ...
The Akshardham was initiated by BAPS's fifth spiritual leader, Pramukh Swami Maharaj, and is one of the three Akshardham mandirs constructed by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha; the other two are in New Delhi and Gandhinagar. [3] [4] It is the largest Hindu mandir in the United States, and the second-largest in the world. [5] [a]
The ISSO was formed in 1978 in Chicago under the Nar Narayan Dev Gadi. The temple in Weehawken, New Jersey, was opened in 1987, and was the first in the US. [37] By 2012, the organisation had 20 temples in the US, in cities including Boston, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Tampa, Florida, Detroit and Cleveland, Ohio, Colonia, Parsippany and ...