Friday 27 January 2023 | Maha Sud 6, Samvat 2079
Fri 27 Jan 2023
World Peace Ambassador Acharya Swamishree Maharaj departed from this mortal world during the very early minutes of Samvat 2076 Ashadh Vad Ekadashi, Thursday 16 July 2020.
World Peace Ambassador Acharya Swamishree Maharaj departed from this mortal world during the very early minutes of Samvat 2076 Ashadh Vad Ekadashi, Thursday 16 July 2020. His spiritual successor, Acharya Shree Jitendriyapriyadasji Swamiji Maharaj performed His cremation ceremony in the grounds Shree Muktajeevan Swamibapa Smruti Mandir that very same morning.
Exactly two months later, on Bhadarva Vad Ekadashi, Sunday 13 September 2020, Acharya Swamiji Maharaj performed the inauguration of a memorial at the exact location where the cremation ceremony took place. Acharya Swamiji Maharaj and Sants performed aarti and pradakshina around this memorial where the sacred ashes of Acharya Swamishree Maharaj’s Murti have been put on display so that disciples can have darshan. This darshan will remain until it is possible for the divine ashes to be ritually scattered.
Acharya Shree Jitendriyapriyadasji Swamiji Maharaj is the current spiritual leader of Maninagar Shree Swaminarayan Gadi Sansthan. He is the heir to Acharya Shree Purushottampriyadasji Swamishree Maharaj, and sixth in the lineage of ascetic Acharyas, which descends directly from Lord Shree Swaminarayan.