AKSHAR MANDIR, GONDAL
In a relatively short span of nine years, Shastriji Maharaj had inspired two majestic mandirs, consecrating the murtis of Akshar and Purushottam in the central shrines. Shastriji Maharaj continued his spiritual tours to the villages, towns, and cities, explaining the Akshar-Purushottam philosophy as revealed by Bhagwan Swaminarayan in the Vachanamrut. In the summer of 1932 CE (Samvat 1988) Shastriji Maharaj was in Sarangpur, where Haribhai Amin, a native of Virsad, a village near Borsad, came to meet him. Haribhai had negotiated a deal with the Maharaja of Gondal, Bhagvatsinhji, to purchase the land surrounding the Akshar Deri, the auspicious memorial shrine built over the cremation site of Aksharbrahman Gunatitanand Swami. The all-knowing Shastriji Maharaj stated, “The price of Rs. 25,000 you have accepted is reasonable.” Haribhai was left speechless. Since Swaminarayan Mandir, Sarangpur that, in fact, was the price he had agreed upon with the Maharaja. He realized that he could
