Biography of Shri Swami Satyanand Ji

(1861)

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 faith. In 1891, at the age of 30, he joined the Arya Samaj

Swami Satyanand Ji Maharaj devoted his life to spiritual talk for the next 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 as to intensify devotion to God through concentration on Ram Naam. He wrote sacred books in Hindi, namely 'Bhakti Prakash, Pravachan Piyush' and 'Amritvani'.