Comments on: Behold: Toronto’s Swaminarayan Mandir

By: bo

bo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:06:19 +0000

I just thought i would note for many of you that hate doubts and questions about the Hindu Swaminarayan BAPS faith. You should visit two sites.

http://www.baps.org

and

http://www.bapscharities.org

Look at the this link for answers to almost all of those questions mentioned above.

http://www.swaminarayan.org/faq/index.htm

Instead of bashing on another religion without knowing anything about it…and just assuming, study it more than just a few incidents because not everyone’s perfect, so each religion is going to have the people that aren’t perfect.

Read the FAQ’s if questions remain…repost, i will try to answer them to your liking.

Jay Swaminarayan to all,

By: dip

dip — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:21:36 +0000

http://www.bapscharities.org/

By: bhaumik

bhaumik — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:43:59 +0000

for u all …i would just say a word that whoever wants to know about what is BAPS and their activities…plz visit.. http://www.swaminarayan.org and i hope u all get answers to your questions..thnx .. may god bless us.

By: celina

celina — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:03:46 +0000

gino italiano

I agree with you, the temple will pay for itself over time. With all the charity events, womens events, and education events, non-addiction campaigns that will go on this can be easily done in less than a decade. Not to mention that it's a house of GOD, providing spiritual comfort to millions of people. You can put no value on that.

By: gino italiano!

gino italiano! — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:41:01 +0000

i feel its good that temples are being.. built one its preserve culture for the future but mostly we will forget everything about the hindu culture.. this will tell be about hindu culture and make them want to learn more about.. thats main reason the temple is being built also yeah its also tourist attraction.. to education people about hinduism,.. i feel that is thier main purpose to education the ppl most people feel hinduism werid with millions of gods in reality which is not tru..

this temple makes it easier for man to comprehend vedic culture.. so spending 40 millions to preserve culture is a good thing.. espically when ur not in india..there at least someting being preserved!

By: Celina

Celina — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:55:21 +0000

Michael

Yes, BAPS takes non-indian converts. I'm visit the Neasden temple(London) all the time and there are white, black, east asian worshippers, not just visitors. So, of course you can follow the faith, it's just majority indian, right now. Anyway, things change overtime, BAPS is very progressive, which is why it's one of the most well known hindu organizations. Peace.

By: FYI

FYI — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:14:09 +0000

Michael,

Yes, BAPS is open to all. There are devotees who are non-Indian.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:17:42 +0000

Is it just that BAPS is not looking for non-Indian converts or do they not accept non-Indian converts? Even some Orthodox Churches refused people of Western European decent to become members, because they were not seen as suitable to understand Orthodox teachings in the opinions of their Church leaders. Nowadays, they are most welcome to Western members and many Hindu organizations do accept Western members as well. What about BAPS? To be honest, I am myself myself very interested in the Hindu religious scriptures, but would like to study them together with Indian and non-Indian Hindus alike. Are there any non-Indian worshippers or is BAPS open to everybody?

By: Celina

Celina — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:35:10 +0000

BAPS Charitable work

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk0MDYmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcxNzcwODQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2

By: Celina

Celina — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:39:06 +0000

In the pilgrim places and the holy shrines, be charitable and serve food to the priests, sadhus and poor worshipers, according to your means of subsistence. Shloka: 83

chachaji

All Swaminarayan temples serve for to the poor and needy. Lord Swaminarayan instructed his devotees to do so. So finding temples that do such shouldn’t be hard. Another thing is your misconceptions about the BAPS faith, you should atleast look through BAPS website before making incorrect judgements.

http://www.swaminarayan.org/scriptures/shikshapatri/gems.htm

fixed.