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The book was written with the purpose of introducing teachings of the Vedas, an ancient scripture related to Hinduism, to a lay audience. Saraswati believed that various misconceptions had been created by interpretations of the Vedas propagated by scholars such as Sayana , Mahidhara , Ralph T.H. Griffith , and Max Muller .
Swami Dayananda Saraswati (15 August 1930 – 23 September 2015) was a renunciate monk of the Hindu Saraswati order of sannyasa. He was also known as Pujya Swamiji and was a traditional teacher of Advaita Vedanta . [ 1 ]
The book was subsequently revised by Swami Dayanand Saraswati in 1882 and has been translated into more than 20 languages including Sanskrit and foreign languages, including English, French, German, Swahili, Arabic and Chinese. The major portion of the book is dedicated to laying down the reformist advocacy of Swami Dayanand with the last four ...
Dayananda Saraswati's creation, the Arya Samaj, condemned practices of several different religions and communities, including such practices as idol worship, animal sacrifice, pilgrimages, priest craft, offerings made in temples, the castes, child marriage, meat eating and discrimination against women.
Narayan Dev, a Samaj member active in making many conversions is extolled as a Sindhi martyr. He is sometimes referred to as 'Dayanand ka vir sipahi' (Dayanand's heroic soldier). Dev was killed in a street fight in 1948. [24] The history of Sindhi nationalism is also tied with the activities of the Arya Samaj.
A portrait of Shraddhanand. He was born on 22 February 1856 in the village of Talwan in the Jalandhar District of the Punjab Province of India.He was the youngest child in the family of Lala Nanak Chand, who was a Police Inspector in the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), then administered by the East India Company.
In 1875 Swami Dayanda Saraswati founded in Mumbai the Hindu reform movement Arya Samaj. In the same year, the Theosophical Society was founded by Madame Blavatsky and Henry Olcott in New York. Olcott met Moolji Thakurshi (Moolji Thackersey) already in 1870, but they lost contact with each other. In 1877 Olcott wrote to Thakurshi, and described ...
The Naiṣkarmyasiddhi of Sureśvara: Edited with Introduction, English Translation, Annotation, and Indices (1st ed.). University of Madras. ISBN 81-7030-317-6. Surésvara; Shri Shrit Satchindānandendra Saraswati (2005). The Klesāpahārinī (An Original Commentary) (2nd ed.). Adhyātma Prakāsha Kāryālaya. ISBN 81-7030-317-6.