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SHRI SWAMI SATYANAND JI
       

Shri Swami Satyanand Ji Maharaj, the founder of Sri Ram sharnam, was born in 1861 in Rawalpindi . He lost his parents in his early childhood. AT the young age of 17, he took up the company of spiritual teachers of jain faithy. In 1891, at the age of 30, he joined the Arya Sama and studied Vedanta, Upanishads and other sacred epics.

       

Swami Satyanand Ji Maharaj devoted his life to spiritual talk for the newt 25 years and thereby spread the teachings of sacred epics. In 1925,to acquire mental and inner peace, he went into the Himalayas . Consequently, on July 7,1925 , Swamiji was blessed with the sounds and inner visions of Ram Naam. Thereafter, he started initiating his followers in the name of Ram Naam.

       

He did not start a separate spiritual path.the theme of his preachings was to intensify devotion to god through concentration on Ram Naam. He wrote sacred books in Hindi, namely ‘Bhakti Prakash’, ‘Pravachan Piyaush’ and ‘Amritivani’.