{"id":20389,"date":"2024-02-12T04:52:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T23:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20389"},"modified":"2025-04-06T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:30:18","slug":"baps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/baps\/","title":{"rendered":"Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BAPS is a\u00a0socio-spiritual Hindu faith with its\u00a0roots in the Vedas.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0based on the Vedic teachings propagated\u00a0by Bhagwan Swaminarayan (1781-1830 CE).<\/li>\n<li>It was formally\u00a0established in 1907 CE by Brahmaswarup Shastriji Maharaj.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Founded on the pillars\u00a0of practical spirituality, the BAPS reaches out far and wide to\u00a0address spiritual, moral and social challenges\u00a0and issues.<\/li>\n<li>No Alcohol, No Addictions, No Adultery, No Meat, No Impurity of body and mind are the\u00a0five lifetime vows of BAPS followers.<\/li>\n<li>Its\u00a0global network of mandirs and centres hosts many moral, social, cultural, and spiritual activities.<\/li>\n<li>Education and women development\u00a0are other focus areas, with many schools, hostels, and community development activities targeted at women being managed by BAPS.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is also\u00a0engaged in a variety of humanitarian activities that include services\u00a0in times of natural calamities, primary schools, students\u2019 hostels, hospitals, diagnostic camps, anti-addiction drives, environment-awareness programs, tribal uplift, and literacy campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>BAPS is an\u00a0NGO with a Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations?<\/h3>\n<p>It is one of the six principal organs of the UN, which was established by the UN Charter (1945). It is responsible for the direction and coordination of the economic, social, humanitarian, and cultural activities carried out by the UN. Decisions are taken by a simple majority vote. The presidency of ECOSOC changes annually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/international\/pm-narendra-modi-inaugurate-first-hindu-temple-abu-dhabi-during-his-two-day-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi during his two-day visit starting Feb 13<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha is a socio-spiritual Hindu faith with its roots in the Vedas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}