Shri Swaroopanand Ji (Nangli Sahib)

Swami Swarupanand Ji Maharaj (1884-1936) was the second guru of the Paramhans Advait Mat lineage, a North Indian devotional sect. He is venerated today at his samadhi shrine at the village of Nangli near Meerut, known as Nangli Sahib or Nangli Tirath, which gives him the registry name used on this platform.

Followers address him as Hari Har Baba, Sadhgurudev Ji and, in recognition of his lasting association with his samadhi site, Nangli Niwasi Bhagwaan Ji, "the Lord who dwells at Nangli." He is also referred to simply as the sect's "Second Guru."

As a historical figure from the twentieth century rather than a Puranic deity, he has no classical iconography. He is represented through photographic portraits and through his samadhi shrine at Nangli, which functions as the focal point of devotion in place of a sculpted or painted image.

Born in the village of Teri, in what is now Kohat district, Pakistan, he was initiated into sanyas in the early 1900s by Paramhans Swami Advaitanand Ji, founder of the Advait Mat lineage, who gave him the name Swarupanand. He went on to build an order of renunciate disciples and founded several hundred ashrams across northern India before his death at Nangli in 1936, by which time he had more than ten thousand followers.

He was the direct spiritual successor, as "second guru," to Paramhans Swami Advaitanand Ji Maharaj (1846-1919), founder of the Paramhans Advait Mat. The lineage of gurus within the sect continues from him to later successors.

Nangli Tirath remains a major pilgrimage and ashram centre for the Paramhans Advait Mat, sustained today by the Shri Nangli Sahib Darbar Trust. His life is presented within the sect chiefly as one of building disciplined renunciate community and spreading his own guru's teaching across the region.

His following is concentrated in northern India, particularly Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana, reflecting the geography of the ashrams founded during his lifetime. As with other living devotional lineages, the wording of hymns and prayer texts associated with him is treated separately from this biographical profile and follows its own sourcing and clearance process.