Maharaja Paramhans Ji Shrine

Posted on January 3, 2022 by admin1 1137

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Over 200 Hindu pilgrims from India, the US and the Gulf prayed at the 100-year-old renovated Maharaja Paramhans Ji mandir in northwest Pakistan.

About Maharaja Paramhans Ji

Born in 1846 in Chhapra (Bihar).
His parents died when he was only five years old, and he was brought up by a Kayastha family.
He was also known as Shri Paramhans Swami Advaitanand Ji Maharaj.
He attained proficiency in Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, Arabic and Persian within a very short time.
He did not take interest in worldly affairs and was rather inclined towards a life of asceticism.

Teri became the main centre of Paramhans’s propagation of his faith.
- It was here that he founded his Paramhans Advaita sect.
He breathed his last on July 10, 1919, at Teri.
- After partition, the main centre of his sect was shifted to Anandpur in Madhya Pradesh.

Source: TH

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