The carder felt that he was lucky to have this opportunity of witnessing a Hindu festival. Thousands of devotees had come there from different parts of the country. A grand festival was being celebrated to mark the spiritual coronation of Sahajanand Swami. At that time, Ramanand Swami was handing over the reins of the Sampraday to his spiritual heir, Sahajanand Swami. Some years later this carder visited Jetpur with his son, who was then eleven-years-old. Let us rejoice.’’ With these words, he handed over the child to his wife. He thought, “I have no child of my own here is God’s gift.” He carried the child home and said to his wife, “Look here. His joy knew no bounds on seeing the child. After some time a carder passing by suddenly saw the child lying in the hole of the tree. However, bowing to social pressure, one early morning she pressed the child against her chest, went out of thevillage and left the child in the hole of a tree. We are not going to accept it in our family.” This caused great pain to the mother. They said, “This child is illegitimate, so the mother should either disown him or kill him. So, after his birth, people started slandering the mother. His mother was very beautiful but his father was treated as a lunatic by the people. Premanand Swami was born into a Sathodara Nagar Brahmin family in a village near Nadiad (some say that he was born in the village Dora, near Bharuch) around 1784 CE (Samvat 1840). A Muslim family raised him, his foster father was Dosatai.
His parents abandoned him at a young age. Premanand Swami was born to Hindu ( Brahmin) parents in the town of Dora Bharuch in 1784 and named Hathiram on birth.
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