Nityanand Swami (Paramhansa)

Nityanand Swami (Devanagari: नित्यानन्द स्वामी) (1793–1852) born as Dinmani Sharma, was one of the senior Paramhansa’s initiated by Swaminarayan.

Prior to his initiation, he had already established an impressive knowledge base through his association with great scholars and pundits.

Nityanand Swami was regarded as the incarnation of Vyasa In 1793, Dinmani Sharma was born to a Brahmin family in town of Datiya which still sits in the Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh in the northern part of India.

[1] From a young age, he had shown an inclination towards studying and was sent to a school in Kashi, one of the preeminent arts and scriptural learning centers in India.

Besides his work in compiling the Vachanamrutam, Nityanand Swami also wrote many other volumes which included the commentary on the Shikshapatri, a code of ethics written by Swaminarayan, the Hari Digvijay, a 49-chapter volume which attempts to establish that Swaminarayan is supreme, the Hari Kavach, the Shri Hanuman Kavach, the Nishkam Shuddhi, the Avatar Charitra, and a number of others.