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Dadashri. When Dada Bhagwan suffered from fractured leg and required constant medical attention, she joined him to serve him with her medical knowledge and continued to tour with him including his foreign visits from 1973 to 1987. During the same period, Kanubhai had continued to operate a company in which Dada Bhagwan was partner before he attained self realization.
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was one of the followers of Dada
Bhagwan. After attending schooling in Mumbai, Pujya Niruma graduated with a Medical Degree from Aurangabad Medical College. Pujya Nirumaโs family assumed that She would start Her medical practice after graduation, and Her father began to plan for building a hospital
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by his followers though he had differentiated between self and his empirical self as Patel and Dada
Bhagwan. Initially he had not revealed his experiences to public but some of his close relatives and friends knew it. In 1962, during conversation with him, a person named Chandrakant Patel from
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and Bombay. The movement expanded in 1960s and 1970s to southern
Gujarat and Maharashtra and in Gujarati diaspora in East Africa, North America and UK. In 1983, he had reportedly around 50,000 followers. When he died in 1988, his funeral was attended by about 60000. In 1999, their magazine
418:. He was accused of duping his followers of money. The police case was filed against him and his family members. He was removed as the leader of Jay Sachchidanand Sangh following the case. He moved to US where he died on 9 June 2020. His son Bhavesh Patel declared himself the successor.
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Between 1962 and 1968, very few close people received "knowledge" through Dada
Bhagwan. Following 1968, he bestowed "knowledge" who requested to be blessed. This is the foundation of the movement. He said that he was initially reluctant due to fear of public opinion as in case of
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Ahmedabad, and later Simandhar Swami Aradhana Trust in Ahmedabad and Mahavideh Foundation in Mumbai. She became popular leader of movement and was addressed as Niruma by her followers from 1999. After death of Niruben Amin in 2006, she was succeeded by
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Sachchidanand Sangh, the major organisation of Akram Vignan movement, was founded under the auspices of Dada Bhagwan in Mumbai. Khetsi Narsi Shah, a head of local Dada Bhagwan Vitarag Trust, was appointed as the first
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Mahavideh Tirthdham Trust. It had all three images and has a chamber underneath a temples which had photos of A. M. Patel (Dada Bhagwan) and Kanubhai Patel. It is managed by the Jay Sachchidanand Sangh.
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Kanudada, was close to Dada Bhagwan before 1978. He claims succession and presents a recorded tape in which Dada Bhagwan had instructed about it (succession). He is seen as future
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which is only achieved in presence of
Tirthankara. Kanubhai K. Patel was the second person, who was also his business partner, who received instant knowledge in 1963 from Dada Bhagwan.
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Niruben Amin had tape-recorded the discourses of Dada Bhagwan between 1974 and 1988 which amount to about 4000 tapes. These tapes are transcribed, compiled and published as
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s (celibate disciples who are invited around the world). It also manages community funds and supervises building activities along with publication of books and magazine,
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In contrast to traditional Jainism, it rejects or is indifferent to scriptural knowledge, physical asceticism, rituals and practices in favour of self-knowledge (
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Mahavideh Tirthdham, a Trimandir was also built by Niruben Amin in Ahmedabad in 1999. More than 20 Trimandirs were built later by the Dada Bhagwan Foundation.
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Niruben Amin organised the movement by publishing the discourses of Dada Bhagwan, formalising Gyanvidhi, construction of temples and composing ritual worship (
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became more elaborate and achieved its present form in 1983. He continued to give religious discourses. He emphasised contact of "knower" (
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and Gujarati diaspora communities around the world. After death of Dada Bhagwan, the movement split in two factions: one led by
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