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The Nar Narayan Dev Gadi (Naranarāyan Dēv Gadī), named after the two forms of supreme lord Nara-Narayana, is one of the two Gadis (seats) that together form the Swaminarayan Sampradaya. Its headquarter is at the Swaminarayan Temple, Ahmedabad and controls the Uttar Vibhag (North division).
Naranarayana (Sanskrit: नरनारायण, romanized: Naranārāyaṇa), also rendered Nara-Narayana, is a Hindu duo of sage-brothers. Generally regarded to be the partial-incarnation (aṃśa-avatara) [1] of the preserver deity, Vishnu, on earth, [2] Nara-Narayana are described to be the sons of Dharma and Ahimsa.
Swaminarayan ordered the construction of several Hindu temples and he had built six huge temples by himself and installed the idols of various deities such as Radha Krishna, Nara-Narayana, Laksmi Narayana, Gopinath, Radha Ramana, and Madanamohana. The images in the temples built by Swaminarayan provide evidence of the priority of Krishna.
In these temples he installed images of various Hindu gods, such as NarNarayan Dev, LaxmiNarayan Dev, RadhaKrishna Dev, RadhaRaman Dev, Revti-Baldevji, Madan Mohan Dev etc. [2] Each of these nine original temples fall either under the NarNarayan Dev Gadi, Ahmedabad or the LaxmiNarayan Dev Gadi, Vadtal depending on their geographical location. [3]
A Satsangi must show reverence for God, the Shastras, the Acharya of the Gadi the Satsangi comes under (Nar Narayan Dev Gadi or Lakshmi Narayan Dev Gadi), festivals, elders and be of overall good conduct. [26] Upon initiation, Satsangi make 11 vows, called Niyams (Rules): [27] [28] Be non-violent
This definition is used throughout post-Vedic literature such as the Mahabharata and the Vishnu Purana. [7] [9] 'Narayana' is also defined as the 'son of the primeval man', [10] and 'Supreme Being who is the foundation of all men'. [11] 'Nara' (Sanskrit नार) means 'water' and 'man' [12]
Naranarayan is a Sanskrit term meaning the combination of the human and the supreme being, here Vishnu. In Sanskrit, nara means human being and narayan means Narayana, another name for Vishnu. In Mahabharata, Arjuna has been identified with nara and Krishna with Narayana. Nara-Narayana, the twin brother incarnation of Vishnu.
After completing tapas, Narayana said declared that people should always invoke her name before his. Therefore, Hindus refer to " Lakshmi-Narayana ." Within the satya yuga , the area came to be known as badrināth , the lord of the berry trees, in recognizance of Nara-Narayana’s penance.