1. Acharya Mahashraman is the eleventh Acharya, supreme head of Jain Svetambara Terapanth sect.

1. Acharya Mahashraman is the eleventh Acharya, supreme head of Jain Svetambara Terapanth sect.
Mahashraman has a firm conviction to promote nonviolence, moral values and principles.
Mahashraman lost his father at the early age of seven.
Mahashraman taught him good moral values and gave him a good education.
Mahashraman avoided all sorts of deviations and loved being alone.
Acharya Mahashraman had started his Tri-Nation Ahimsa Yatra to advance the cause of non-violence with the aim of promoting harmony and brotherhood, escalating moral values and movement towards de-addiction.
Mahashraman has visited Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Pondicherry, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh and traveled to Nepal and Bhutan to inspire people to walk on the path of virtue by training meditation, yoga etc.
Mahashraman emphasized the change of heart, trained the public through various seminars, and workshops during his visit.
The closing ceremony of the Ahimsa Yatra which has been going on for the last eight years under the leadership of Acharya Mahashraman was held in Delhi on 27 March 2022 at Talkatora Stadium, in which many saints, Union Ministers, MPs, litterateurs, journalists, Social workers and non-violence workers participated.
Mahashraman emphasized the importance of the Ahimsa Yatra that started from the Red Fort in 2014 and noted the coincidence that he himself started his new journey as Prime Minister of India in the same year.
Mahashraman said real self-realization is possible only in the absence of any kind of addiction.
Mahashraman noted that lakhs and lakhs of people took up the resolution of de-addiction in the Ahimsa Yatra.
Mahashraman announced the name of Mahashraman as the next successor of Terapanth.