The most powerful among the various offshoots of the sect are the Bochasanwasis, who built the Akshardham complex. This sect set up base in Bochasan, a village near Anand in central Gujarat, where the Patels are the most prosperous. There are entire villages where you find only elderly people staying, with the rest of the family members having set up businesses in the US or one of the African states. This is why the Bochasanwasi Swaminarayan sect is flush with nri funds. The sect is led by Pramukh Swami Maharaj, himself a Patel. With thousands of followers, a good number of them foreigners, the sect fuses modernity with spiritualism and religion. It is not without reason that they say in Gujarat: "Sadhu thao tou Swaminarayan na (If you wish to be a sadhu, choose the Swaminarayan sect)."