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Originally posted by: Moonks

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Le Maine toh inhe dekha hi nahi

Is he there , ya didn’t see him , seems didn’t show him

B.a.p.s. I know it’s abbreviation but ppl are saying it as baps mandir , it’s sounding weird not sounding like Hindu temple name .

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Originally posted by: Manavi_kesari

B.a.p.s. I know it’s abbreviation but ppl are saying it as baps mandir , it’s sounding weird not sounding like Hindu temple name .

Very strictly speaking, it's not. BAPS temples, whether in Akshardham, London, Robbinsville, or wherever are dedicated to Bochanaswasi Akshar Purushottam, which is a lineage of Gurus. I've been to the one in Robbinsville, and it only has a statue of him. Any other statues of any deities are secondary to his. (Another thing about the one in NJ (dunno about the others) is that I didn't notice people removing their footwear before entering, which is totally different from other Hindu temples dedicated to actual gods) I won't call it blasphemy, but it's certainly not in accordance w/ the shastras

If one accepts the definition of Hindu/Sanatani as worship of either Vedic or Puranic deities, then this one doesn't fall under that. A real Hindu temple would house the actual gods we have in Hinduism, be it Mahadev, Narayan, Ma Durga, Mahakali, Ganapati Bappa, et al. While in India, temples are often dedicated to a single deity (similar to a God having a single family home), in the US, in a temple, one can often find all the major Hindu deities - Shiva/Parvati, Ma Durga, Rama/Sita/Lakshman/Hanuman, Krishna/Radha, Ganapati Bappa and so on: it's like a shared housing for multiple Hindu deities. But neither of these are present in the BAPS temple that I'm seen. I'm assuming that the others follow the same template, but am open on being corrected on that

Originally posted by: Vr15h

Very strictly speaking, it's not. BAPS temples, whether in Akshardham, London, Robbinsville, or wherever are dedicated to Bochanaswasi Akshar Purushottam, which is a lineage of Gurus. I've been to the one in Robbinsville, and it only has a statue of him. Any other statues of any deities are secondary to his. (Another thing about the one in NJ (dunno about the others) is that I didn't notice people removing their footwear before entering, which is totally different from other Hindu temples dedicated to actual gods) I won't call it blasphemy, but it's certainly not in accordance w/ the shastras

If one accepts the definition of Hindu/Sanatani as worship of either Vedic or Puranic deities, then this one doesn't fall under that. A real Hindu temple would house the actual gods we have in Hinduism, be it Mahadev, Narayan, Ma Durga, Mahakali, Ganapati Bappa, et al. While in India, temples are often dedicated to a single deity (similar to a God having a single family home), in the US, in a temple, one can often find all the major Hindu deities - Shiva/Parvati, Ma Durga, Rama/Sita/Lakshman/Hanuman, Krishna/Radha, Ganapati Bappa and so on: it's like a shared housing for multiple Hindu deities. But neither of these are present in the BAPS temple that I'm seen. I'm assuming that the others follow the same template, but am open on being corrected on that

In Virginia, the BAPS I go to has Shiv ji-Parvati ji, Ram darbar, Radha Krishna along with Guru ji and Swaminarayan ji (he is said to be incarnation of Vishnu ji). We are told to remove our shoes at the BAPS. In Robinsville NJ, when we went we all removed our shoes along with other devotees.
also, in Chicago when I went to BAPS, they also have murti of Radha-Krishna.
Even the one in Ohio has Radha-Krishna too and all the BAPS i have gone to we were told to remove shoes.

When someone claims to be an avatar of Narayan and builds a structure around that, it's open to whether or not average Hindus accept that claim. Granted that Hinduism includes every cult under it that worships various Gurus/Babas/what have you, but that totally blurs the line b/w a cult and a religion

As far as I know , Swaminarayan considered Krishna as his Ishtdeva.

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.

Originally posted by: Vr15h

Very strictly speaking, it's not. BAPS temples, whether in Akshardham, London, Robbinsville, or wherever are dedicated to Bochanaswasi Akshar Purushottam, which is a lineage of Gurus. I've been to the one in Robbinsville, and it only has a statue of him. Any other statues of any deities are secondary to his. (Another thing about the one in NJ (dunno about the others) is that I didn't notice people removing their footwear before entering, which is totally different from other Hindu temples dedicated to actual gods) I won't call it blasphemy, but it's certainly not in accordance w/ the shastras

If one accepts the definition of Hindu/Sanatani as worship of either Vedic or Puranic deities, then this one doesn't fall under that. A real Hindu temple would house the actual gods we have in Hinduism, be it Mahadev, Narayan, Ma Durga, Mahakali, Ganapati Bappa, et al. While in India, temples are often dedicated to a single deity (similar to a God having a single family home), in the US, in a temple, one can often find all the major Hindu deities - Shiva/Parvati, Ma Durga, Rama/Sita/Lakshman/Hanuman, Krishna/Radha, Ganapati Bappa and so on: it's like a shared housing for multiple Hindu deities. But neither of these are present in the BAPS temple that I'm seen. I'm assuming that the others follow the same template, but am open on being corrected on that

This is right. Our regular Hindu Gods are secondary at the BAPS NJ temple.