In vikram samvat 1886 Shreeji Maharaj lived in the village Gadhpur. When ilness was captured, the brahmin devotees Sadashivbhai, Narbherambhai etc, had gone to Ghadpur to the 'Darshan' of Shree Hari. There they are made proptrate bow to shree Hari, worshiped Shree Hari and offered a silver plate and asked for an idle from Shree hari. This occasion was described in Harililamrut - 1 'Kalash' 20 'Vishram' by shri Viharilalji maharaj.

Ramanand Swami was born Ajay Sharma (father) and Sumati (mother) in Ayodhya is Vikram Samvat 1795 Brahmin families. His child hood name was Shri Rama Sharma. Ramanand Swami was the incarnation of Uddhavaji Uddhavaji and recalled the knowledge and all other commendable features. When he was inclined to asceticism from childhood, he decided not to go into secular life.

After initiating a tradition of looking after the entire Fellowship in the hands of the persons from his own family-line Lord Swaminarayan established two high seats of religion, one at Vadtal and the other at Ahmedabad. The first person to occupy the Laxminarayan Dev Gadi of Vadtal was H.H. Acharya Shri Raghuvirji Maharaj and seven other Acharyas (cardinal chiefs) followed him in the tradition.