[1] It is known primarily as the origin of Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), so named because its first formal center was established in Bochasan in 1907 by its guru Shastriji Maharaj.

"[4] The founding of BAPS was laid by Shastriji Maharaj in 1905 in Bochasan, hence the name Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (abbreviated as 'BAPS').

The main reason was in the doctrinal difference of Akshar Purshottam Philosophy between Shastriji Maharaj and the diocese, regarding Gunatitanand Swami as the " true successor of Bhagwan Swaminarayan".

[6] Although he told everyone that he was not splitting with Vadtal, but just going to preach in the villages, his departure gave his detractors the excuse they were looking for, and Shastri Yagnapurushdas was, as Prof. Raymond Williams observes, "expelled from the fellowship by a hastily called meeting of swamis"[6] As the debate raged, Shastriji Maharaj continued to preach in the villages and propagate the Akshar-Purushottam doctrine.

Soon, he began to plan and construct a temple in which Akshar-Purushottam Maharaj would be installed in the central shrine of a shikharbaddha mandir in Bochasan,[7] as Bhagwan Swaminarayan had prophesied.

Saints and Devotees now had served to their best in the construction of the new mandir in Bochasan which would house the Murtis of Bhagwan Swaminarayan and Gunatitanand Swami.

[4] On 5 June 1907, Shastri Yagnapurushdas consecrated the murtis of Bhagwan Swaminarayan and Gunatitanand Swami in the newly constructed mandir Bochasan.