mandapam_bhakta_mandap

In Bhagwan Swaminarayan’s lifetime, approximately two million people in western India counted themselves as his bhaktas or devotees. Through his divine influence, he elevated countless people from the bonds of ignorance to the exalted spiritual state of God-realization. Liberated souls or muktas eternally experience his bliss in the divine abode, Akshardham. Representing these elevated souls are 148 statues of some of his ardent followers. Every layer of this dome has sculptures representing muktas residing in Akshardham.