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In 1855 he founded an evening school for the children of working men, which continued through 1858. In 1855, he became Secretary to the Goodwill Fraternity, [8] a Masonic [9] lodge associated with the Unitarian Rev. Charles Dall and a Christian missionary Rev. James Long who also helped Sen establish a "British Indian Association" in the same year. [10]
The Brahmo Samaj strived towards monotheism, while no longer regarding the Vedas as sole religious authority. [108] The Brahmo Samaj had a strong influence on the Neo-Vedanta of Vivekananda, [108] Aurobindo, Radhakrishnan and Gandhi, [107] who strived toward a modernized, humanistic Hinduism with an open eye for societal problems and needs. [107]
The bone of contention between these two Samaj's was over the authority of the Vedas – whose authority the Adi Dharma reject and hold to be inferior works, whereas Arya Samaj hold Vedas to be divine revelation. Despite this difference of opinion, however, it seems that the members of the Brahmo Samaj and Swami Dayanand parted on good terms ...
North Texas Hindu Mandir (NTHM) Dallas: Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple: Frisco: Hindu Temple of San Antonio [105] Helotes: Sri Meenakshi Devasthanam (Sri Meenakshi Temple Society) Pearland: Oldest Hindu temple in Texas. Only Meenakshi temple outside India.
The bone of contention between these two Samaj's was over the authority of the Vedas – whose authority the Adi Dharma reject and hold to be inferior works, whereas Arya Samaj hold Vedas to be divine revelation. Despite this difference of opinion, however, it seems that the members of the Brahmo Samaj and Swami Dayanand parted on good terms ...
The first Vedanta Society, the Vedanta Society of New York, was founded by Swami Vivekananda in November 1894 on his first trip to the West. [5] [14] In 1897 Vivekananda sent Swami Abhedananda to lead the organization. [7] On Vivekananda's second trip to the west he founded the Vedanta Society of Northern California in San Francisco. [15]
The Arya Samaj is a monotheistic Hindu reform movement founded in India by Maharshi Dayananda in 1875 at Bombay. He was an ascetic who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. [15] It aimed to be a universal structure based on the authority of the Vedas. Dayananda stated that he wanted 'to make the world noble', i.e., to return ...
The Arya Samaj was founded by Dayanand Saraswati (1824–1883), who authored Satyarth Prakash, [53] a book containing the basic teachings of Saraswati and the Arya Samaj. [54] It contains "Dayananda's bitter criticisms of the major non-Vedic religions of Indian origins."