satsangi
{{Short description|Follower of Swaminarayan}}
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The followers of Swaminarayan, Radha Soami and other similar Sant Mat or Satsang movement is referred to as a Satsangi.{{cite book |author1=K. Ayyappapanicker |author2=Sahitya Akademi | title=Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | year=1997 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYLpvaKJIMEC&q=vachanamrut&pg=RA1-PA132 |isbn=81-260-0365-0 |access-date=May 7, 2009}} Page 130, 131{{Cite book |last=Shai |first=Radhasoami |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61840/page/n309/mode/1up |title=Souvenir In Commemoration Of The First Centenary Of The Radhasoami Satsang |date=1961}}
Satsangi life
=Kanthi=
A kanthi is a double stranded necklace made of tulsi.{{cite book |author1=Behramji Merwanji Malabari |author2=Krishnalal M. Jhaveri |author3=Malabari M. B | title=Gujarat and the Gujaratis | publisher=Asian Educational Services | year=1997 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lyd8jPbN218C&q=muktanand+swami |isbn=81-206-0651-5 |access-date=May 7, 2009}} Page 264 Female satsangis are initiated by the wife of the acharya, who is the leader of women in the Swaminarayan Sampradaya.{{cite web|author=University of Oxford (Indian Institute Library and Refugee Studies Centre) |url=http://www.shikshapatri.org.uk/~imagedb/hms/mss_browse.php?expand=638,639&act=chtrans&trans=1 |title=The Digital Shikshapatri |publisher=Shikshapatri.org.uk |access-date=2013-06-24}} Female members of BAPS are generally initiated by senior women followers and males are initiated at the hands of a sadhu or senior male devotees.{{Cite web|url=http://www.swaminarayan.org/faq/bapsgeneral.htm|title = FAQ-Related to BAPS Swaminaryan Sansthã-General}}
See also
{{Swaminarayan Sampraday}}
References
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