The Shikshapatri is the short book of precepts that Sahajanand Swami, known as Swaminarayan, gave his followers in Gujarat in the early nineteenth century. Monier Monier-Williams’s translation for the Royal Asiatic Society sets out its rules for daily conduct, worship of Krishna, diet, caste and duty, and names the scriptures the sect holds supreme.
A primary text of a living Hindu tradition in a classic Victorian translation. Download the free EPUB.