The beautiful figure of the Lord Swaminarayan is given a nice and detail treatment. Bhagwan Swaminarayan was born on 2 April 1781 and passed away on June 1, 1830.

Swaminarayan is also known as Ghanshyam Pande, Ghanshyam Maharaj, Shreeji Maharaj, Hari Krishna Maharaj and Shri Hari.

Swaminarayan was born Ghanshyam Pande in Chhapaiya, Uttar Pradesh India in 1781. In 1792, he left home to undertake a 7-year pilgrimage across various places in India and he adopted the name Nilkanth Varni. Finally, he settled in Gujarat in 1799, where the preacher propounded his doctrine. In 1799, he was initiated into the Uddhav Sampraday by his guru, Ramanand Swami and given the name Sahajanand Swami.

After Ramamand Swami's death, Sahajanand Swami held a gathering and gave the Swaminarayan Mahamantra and he came to be known as Swaminarayan and was believed to be god by his followers. The Uddhav Sampraday came to be known as the Swaminarayan Sampraday.

The followers of Swaminarayan Sampraday believe in Vedic scriptures.

It is believed that on the 1st of June, 1830, Swaminarayan gathered all his followers and announced decision to take Samaadhi and did so after making this announcement. He was cremated according to hindu rites at Laxmi Wadi in Gadhada.