Shri Sant Sadguru Janardan Swami (Moungiriji) Maharaj is a Maharshi belonging to the traditionally illustrious great saints of our century. Swamiji throughout his life carried out with great devotion, the great task of awakening and liberating the common people from their narrow, routine, materialistic outlook in life.

Sant Shri. Janardan Swamiji was born in a typical, modest farming family in Tapergaon, Kannad Taluk, Aurangabad District, on September 24, 1914, in the holy land of Marathwada. His mother was Smt. Mhalsabai, and his father was Shri. Appasaheb Patil Ugale. His deeds and words impressed and persuaded every one even when he was a young child.

Since he was a young child, Swamiji has been an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva and Hanuman. Swamiji personally took up and completed renovation / reconstruction work of several shiva temples, and also took up the construction of new Shiva Temples at 9 places in Maharashtra. Swamiji also undertook valuable work related to the field of education. He established Gurukul type schools and schools based on Vedic traditions at Ellora, Dhamane, Aurangabad and Bhet Kopargaon. He established Hostels with free stay and food facilities for poor boys at Triambakeshwar, Nasik, Aurangabad and Kopargaon. Swamiji was fully devoted to general welfare of the masses and strived for world peace. Thus, Swamiji was an Ideal Social Reformer who always strived for the betterment of Society. Because of his life of sacrifice, even though Swamiji discarded his mortal body to the five elements of nature on 10th December 1989 at 4:35 am in the Nasik Ashram, yet by his miraculous deeds he remains immortal – deathless and everlasting.