Advait Mat or Paramhans Advait Mat is a cluster of
panth Panth (also panthan, meaning "path" in Sanskrit) is the term used for several religious traditions in India. A panth is founded by a guru or an acharya, and is often led by scholars or senior practitioners of the tradition.
Some of the major pant ...
s (groups of disciples) in
northern India
North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India. The dominant geographical features of North India are the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas, which demarcate the region from the Tibetan Plateau and Central ...
. It was founded by
Shri Swami Advaitanand Ji Maharaj (1846-1919) who is also known as Paramhans Dyal Ji Maharaj. He declared
Swami Swarupanand Ji Maharaj ( also known as Shri Nangli Niwasi Bhagwan Ji) as his spiritual successor. Swami Swarupanand Ji Maharaj founded more than 300 ashrams with the purpose of disseminating his master's teachings. Swami Swarupanand Ji Maharaj had initiated more than thousand of his disciples into the
sanyas. Many of his disciples went on to establish spiritual institutions to spread the same knowledge.
The ashrams founded by Shri Paramahans Dyal Ji were called Krishna Dwaras. The ashrams with the name Adwait-Swarup Ashram, Paramhans Satyarthi Dham, Shri Anandpur Satsang Ashram are also related to him and Shri Paramhans Advait Mat.
Reportedly, they perceive themselves to be originating from Totapuri in the 18th century, who was the guru of
Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna Paramahansa ( bn, রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস, Ramôkṛṣṇo Pôromohôṅso; , 18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886),——— — also spelled Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya,, was an In ...
as well.
[ Geaves, R. R., ''From Totapuri to Maharaji: Reflections on a Lineage (Parampara),'' (2002). Paper presented at the 27th Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions, Oxford. March 2002.]
All gurus
* Shri pratham paadshahi ji Shri Shri 108 Shri Swami Advaitanand Ji Maharaj (Shri Paramhans Dayal ji)
* Shri dvitiya paadshahi ji Shri Shri 108 Shri Swarupanand Ji Maharaj
* Shri tritiya paadshahi ji Shri Shri 108 Shri Swami Vairagyanand Ji Maharaj
* Shri chaturth paadshahi ji Shri Shri 108 Shri Swami Beantanand Ji Maharaj
* Shri pancham paadshahi ji Shri Shri 108 Shri Swami Darshan Poornanand Ji Maharaj
* Shri shashtam paadshahi ji Shri Shri 108 Shri Swami Vichar Poornanand Ji Maharaj
Organisations
* Shri Anandpur Satsang Ashram
* Sar Shabd Mission (Adwait Swaroop Ashram)
* Paramhans Satyarthi Mission
*Shri Anandpur Dham (Ashoknagar, 473331, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh)
*Shri Prayagdham Trust (Pune, Maharashtra)
* Shri Sant Nagar (Rajasthan)
See also
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Contemporary Sant Mat movements
Contemporary Sant Mat Movements, mostly among the Radha Soami tradition, are esoteric philosophy movements active in the United States, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and especially India. These movements assert that Sant Mat shares a lineage ...
References
Further reading
* ''Shri Paramhans Advait Mat: A Life Sketch of the Illustrious Master of the Mat.'', Shri Anandpur Trust (1975
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Contemporary Sant Mat
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