Asaram Bapu

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Asaram Bapu is an Indian religious and spiritual leader who came into the limelight as a godman in the late 1960s.He was born in a middle-class family in the Sindh region of British India. After Indias partition in 1947, his family left all of their immovable belongings in Sindh and moved to Maninagar in Ahmedabad (then part of the former Bombay State in India). Asaram Bapu in childhood.Asarams father ran a small coal and wood selling business in Ahmedabad. He died when Asaram was just 10 years old.After his fathers demise, Asaram started looking after his fathers business. After a while, he shifted to Vijapur, a city in the Mehsana district of Gujarat.At the age of 15, Asaram fled his home and went to an ashram in Bharuch, just 8 days before his marriage to Laxmi Devi. However, his family convinced him to return home and marry Laxmi.Later, at the age of 23, he again ran away from his home and relocated to Nanital. On his trip to Nanital, he met a local religio-spiritual figure named Lilashah at an ashram.When Lilashah came to know that Asaram had been running away from his home, she advised him to return home. On her advise, Asaram went back to Ahmedabad, but thirteen days later, he once again went to Lilashahs ashram. This time, Lilashah accepted him as her disciple. Asaram Bapus spiritul guru Lilashahji Maharaj.On 7 October 1964, Asarams guru, Lilashah named him Sant Shri Asaramji Maharaj. [25]The Indian Express.Prior to becoming a religious leader, Asaram undertook a variety of professions like: Selling tea at a tea shop owned by one of his relatives named Sevak Ram. Sold liquor and made huge profits out of it. He sold liquor with his four partners named Jamarmal, Nathumal, Kishanmal and Lachrani. He then worked in a milk dairy where he used to earn Rs. 300 per month, but he soon left the job. Asaram also did jobs like cycle repairing and sugar trading. He even worked as a tongawalla and used to carry pilgrims from Ajmer railway station to Dargah Sharif.Selling tea at a tea shop owned by one of his relatives named Sevak Ram.