Shree Swaminarayan Temple Bhuj are pleased to launch the Vachanamrut app in an effort to make reading this Divine scripture as easy and accessible as possible.
Features
- Offline reading, allowing it to work without an internet connection
- In Gujarati and English, making it accessible to majority of users
- Change Font Size for ease of reading
- Bookmark Vachanamruts for easy retrieval and reference
- Appendix to aid finding relevant Vachanamruts
- Audio feature to listen to explanation and audio of the Vachanamrut
Whats is the Vachanamrut?
The Vachanamrut of Bhagwan Shree Swaminarayan is the most sacred and foundational scripture of the Swaminarayan Sampraday. It contains the profound wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads, Brahmasutras, Bhagvad Gita, Bhagvat Purana, Dharma Shastras like Yagnavalkya Smruti, Vidurniti, and epics like the Ramayan and Mahabharat.
Bhagwan Swaminarayan says in Gadhadha II-28
"What is this discourse which I have delivered before you like? Well, I have delivered it having heard and having extracted the essence from the Vedas, the shastras, the Purans and all other words on this earth pertaining to liberation."
It is the essence of ancient Indian wisdom as told by Bhagwan Shree Swaminarayan and compiled by his five contemporary scholarly-sadhus who were known for their asceticism and scholarship in Sanskrit, besides their devotion to him. In fact every statement of the Master is packed with and based on His in-depth religious knowledge, spiritual insights and practical experience. It contains practical and philosophical answers to the sincere enquiries of all types of aspirants regarding life in this world and the life hereafter.
A compilation of 273 spiritual discourses, is divided into 10 sections. The discourses were delivered by Bhagwan Swaminarayan in the last decade of his life, between 1819 and 1829 CE in Gujarati. They were mostly delivered in ashram-like ambience in secluded places like Gadhada, Sarangpur, Kariyani, Loya, Panchala, Vadtal, Ahemdabad, Aslali and Jetalpur.
The word Vachanamrut is a compound word of two Gujarati words, vachan and amrut. Vachan means words or speech and amrut means nectar. Hence the Vachanamrut comprises the nectarine or divine words of Bhagwan Shree Swaminarayan. The Vachanamrut is the amrut (divine nectar) of Bhagwan Shree Swaminarayan in the form of His divine words. This amrut leads the jivas to moksha.
The Editors
The discourses were transcribed not by 1 editor but by five contemporary scholarly-sadhus while they were being delivered. These editors were:
Muktanand Swami, the senior most sadhu of Ramanand Swami, 23 years senior to Bhagwan Shree Swaminarayan. He was the teacher of Bhagwan Shree Swaminarayan when he first arrived in Gujarat. Muktanand Swami is the author of Brahmasutra Bhashya Ratnam, a commentary on the Vedanta Sutra of Badrayana Vyas.
Gopalanand Swami, who had mastered ashtang yoga, wrote a commentary on the Dashopanishad and Bhagvad Gita.
Nityanand Swami, a profound Sanskrit scholar, authored the Hari Digvijay Kavya in Sanskrit.
Shukanand Swami, was a well-known Sanskrit scholar from Dabhan and the personal secretary of the Master.
Brahmanand Swami, a jocular born Poet, by the instructions of Lord Swaminarayan Brahmanand Swami erected three magnificent temples in Muli, Vadtal, Junagadh also as an eminent poet he composed about 9000 devotional songs, which are popular as Brahmanand Kavya.