By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist
Most Indians are familiar with Raja Ram Mohan Roy and his Brahmo Samaj and link it with 19th Century Hindu reformation. But very few know about Sahajanand Swami or the reforms instituted by his Swaminarayan sampradaya, even though both men lived in the same period of history. This may be because Sahajanand Swami was a wandering ascetic who used traditional model of temple for reform, while Roy, an English-speaking philosopher-aristocrat, was influenced by European Enlightenment ideals.
