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Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati

Rishi Dayananda Rejuvenates the Vedic Sanskaar PlanIn an effort to lay bases to spiritually rehabilitate people worldwide, and energize them to reach out to the level of India’s Golden Age again, Rishi Dayananda sought to bring back into popular practice the Karmakaand traditions of Yajña and Sanskaar. Toward this end, Rishi Dayananda wrote a text called the Sanskaar Vidhi which aimed at explaining the performance of Yajñas and Sanskaars. J.T.F. Jordens observes that the publication of this text immediately after the Satyaarth Prakaash shows that the Rishi had embarked on a program of publication that was a systematic and carefully considered one. In his Satyaarth Prakaash, he had described the historical, doctrinal and ethical aspects of Vedic Life. This text embodied the sum-total of his message of reform that was meant to lead Hindus to a higher standard of life experience. What was needed now, he felt, was a complement to this text on doctrines, a practical manual that could have provided Hindus concrete directions to guide them onwards in a life aimed at regeneration and to show them how to worship and pray.
The Advent Of
Mahaa Rishi Dayananda Saraswati
(1824-1883)

20.0 The Rishi’s Life - Principal Events At A Glance
Moolshankar - as was the Rishi’s childhood name - was born on February 12, 1824 in the village of Tankaaraa, Morvi, in Kathiawar, Gujerat. His father, Amba Shankar (also known as Karsan Tiwari) was an orthodox Shivite Brahmin. The following summarizes principal events of the Swami’s life:

Dates
Principal Events
Feb. 12, 1824
Moolshankar born in Tankaaraa - home education begins
1832
Invested with sacred yajyopaveet thread
1837
Participates in Shivaratri fast - loses faith in idol worship
1841
Sister dies – excessive emotional disturbance - mourns in silence
1842
Uncle dies - cries bitterly - resolves to seek means to conquer death
1846-1855
Leaves home in search of learned yogis – initiated into Brahmacharya as Shuddha Chaitanya - later caught by father and brought home - escapes again. Tours length and breath of Northern India - speaks with several yogis, scholars, teachers. Initiated into Sannyaas as Dayananda Saraswati by Swami Poornananda. Taught Yoga by Jwalanand Puri and Sivanand Giri
1855
Attended Kumbha Mela at Haridwar for the first time
Nov. 14, 1860
Arrives in Mathura and gains admission to Gurukul of Swami Virjanand Saraswati to study Sanskrit Grammar
April, 1863
Completes education - undertakes a solemn vow to teach Rishi-written books – takes leave of Guru Swami Virjanand
1863-1865
Lives at Agra – devotes his time to study and reflection in preparing for his life mission
Jan. 24, 1865
Commences his public ministry at Gwalior City
1865-1866
Visits several cities in North India, conducting lectures and disputations
Dec. 1866
Visits Guru Virjanand in Mathura - presents him with gifts - reports on his reform work
March 12, 1867
Attends the Kumbh Mela at Haridwar. Hoists his famous Paakhand Khandani Flag
1867-1868
Continues lectures and diputations in many Cities
Sept. 14, 1868
Guru Virjanand passes away - Swami Dayananda exclaims: “Alas! The sun of Sanskrit Grammar has set today!”
Oct. 26, 1869
Arrives in Banaras. Challenges Hindu Pandits
Nov. 16, 1869
Famous Kaashi Shaastraarth, the debate with 21 front-line Pandits of Banaras in the presence of approximately 50,000 people on the question of whether idol-worship is sanctioned in the Vedas. The Pandits lose the debate and create pandemonium. Swamiji suffers bodily harm
1869-1872
Continues lectures and disputations in many Cities
Dec. 16, 1872
Visits Calcutta and meets with Keshav Chandra Sen and Maharshi Devendranath Tagore of the Brahmo Samaj
Dec. 26, 1873?
Visits Aligarh on the invitation of Raja Jaikishen Das. Raja suggests that Swamiji publish his ideas
May, 1874
Swamiji delivers first lecture in faltering Hindi at Banaras
June 12, 1874
Begins dictating the contents of the Satyaarth Prakaash
Jan. 16, 1875
Seeks to convert the Prarthana Samaj at Rajkot into Arya Samaj
April 10, 1875
Establishes the Arya Samaj in Bombay
June, 1875
First Edition of the Satyaarth Prakaash published by Star Press, Banaras
January, 1877
Visits Delhi on occasion of the Imperial Darbar held on the eve of Queen Victoria becoming the Empress of India. Convenes a meeting of leaders of different faiths to exhort them to work unitedly for the nation. Present were Sayyad Ahmad Khan, Keshav Chandra Sen, Munshi Indramani, Naveenchandra Rai, and others.
March, 1877
Visits Chandaapur Inter-Faith Fair - seeks to unite all Religious Leaders. Present were Rev. T.J. Scott, Rev. Noble, and Moulvi Mahammad Kasim
March 31, 1877
Swamiji arrives in Ludhiana, Punjab
Feb. 27, 1879
Visits Kumbha Mela at Haridwar for the third time
May 1, 1879
Colonel H.S. Olcott and Madame Blavatsky visit Swamiji for the first time.
Sept. 1879
Swami Shraddhaanand (Munshi Raam) sees Rishi Dayananda for first time. Rishi sends his autobiography to be published in the Theosophist
Feb. 12, 1880
Swamiji establishes Vedic Yantraalaya Printing Press at Banaras
Aug. 16, 1880
Establishes Paropkaarini Sabha, a Charitable Trust
May 5, 1881
Pandit Lekh Ram sees Rishi Dayananda for first time
Feb. 27, 1883
Swamiji registers his Final Will
March 28, 1882
Presents a letter of protest against cow slaughter to Queen Victoria through the Viceroy. Letter signed by 250,000 people.
Sept. 26, 1883
Swamiji poisoned in Jodhpur
Oct. 30, 1883
Diwali Day - Swamiji breathes his last with the words - Lord! Let Your Will Be Done!
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Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Swami Dayanand Saraswati in 1874, the year before he founded the Arya Samaj on April 13, 1875 (in Bombay).
Contents[hide]
1 Early life
2 Search for knowledge
3 Dayanand's mission
4 Works
5 Death
6 References
7 External links
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This page is about the founder of the Arya Samaj. For others known by the same name, please see Swami Dayananda (disambiguation)
Swami Dayananda Saraswati (स्‍वामी दयानन्‍द सरस्‍वती) (1824 - 1883) was an important Hindu religious scholar born in a town called Tankara Gujarat, India. He is best known as the founder of the Arya Samaj, "Society of Nobles", a Hindu reform movement, founded in 1875. He was a sanyasi (one who has renounced all worldly possessions and relations) from his boyhood. He was an original scholar, who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda advocated the doctrine of karma, skepticism in dogma, and emphasised the ideals of brahmacharya (celibacy and devotion to God). The Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj were united for a certain time under the name Theosophical Society of the Arya Samaj.
Swami Dayananda's creation, the Arya Samaj, is a unique component in Hinduism. The Arya Samaj unequivocally condemns idol-worship, animal sacrifices, ancestor worship, pilgrimages, priestcraft, offerings made in temples, the caste system, untouchability, child marriages and discrimination against women on the grounds that all these lacked Vedic sanction. The Arya Samaj discourages dogma and symbolism and encourages skepticism in beliefs that run contrary to common sense and logic. To many people, the Arya Samaj aims to be a "universal church" based on the authority of the Vedas.
Among Swami Dayananda's immense contributions is his championing of the equal rights of women - such as their right to education and reading of Indian scriptures - and his translation of the Vedas from Sanskrit to Hindi so that the common man may be able to read the Vedas. The Arya Samaj is rare in Hinduism in its acceptance of women as leaders in prayer meetings and preaching.

Swami Dayananda Saraswati

[edit] Early life
Dayananda was born the village of Tankara near Morvi(Morbi) in the Kathiawar region of modern-day Gujarat, into a Brahmin family on February 12th in 1824. He was named, Moolshankar, and led a very comfortable early life, studying Sanskrit, the Vedas and other religious books to prepare him for a future as a Hindu priest.
A number of incidents resulted in Dayananda questioning traditional beliefs of Hinduism and inquiring about God in early childhood. Still a young child on the night of Shivratri (literally: the night for God Shiva) when his family went to a temple for overnight worship, he stayed up waiting for God to appear to accept the offerings made to idol of God Shiva. While all else slept, Dayananda saw mice eating the offerings kept for the God. He was utterly surprised and wondered how a God, who cannot even protect his own "offerings", would protect humanity. He argued with his father that they should not be worshipping such a helpless God.
The death of his younger sister and his uncle, caused Dayananda to ponder over the meaning of life and death and he started asking questions, which worried his parents. His parents decided to marry him off in his early teens (common in 19th century India), but he decided marriage was not for him and ran away from home. [1]

[edit] Search for knowledge
He was interested with classical Hinduism (current hindu practices) and became a wandering monk. He learned Panini's Grammar to understand Sanskrit texts, and learnt from them that GOD can be seen. After wandering in search of GOD for over 2 decades, he found Swami Virjananda near Mathura who became his guru (gu: darkness; ru:light- i.e. one who makes you reach towards light from darkness) and told him to throw away all his books, as their purpose was solved. On swamiji's request, he shown swamiji the effulgent form of GOD, which according to Vedas is the true form of GOD and resides within the human body in the form of soul. Dayananda stayed under Swami Virjananda's tutelage for two and a half years. After finishing his education, Virjananda asked him to spread the concepts of Vedas in society as his gurudakshina ("tuition-dues").

[edit] Dayanand's mission


AUM or OM is considered by the Arya Samaj to be the highest and most proper name of God.
Dayananda set about the difficult task with dedication despite attempts on his life. He traveled the country challenging religious scholars and priests of the day to discussions and won repeatedly on the strength of his arguments. He believed that Hinduism has been corrupted by divergence from the founding principles of the Vedas and misled by the priesthood for the priests' self-aggrandisement. Hindu priests discouraged common folk from reading Vedic scriptures and encouraged rituals (such as bathing in the Ganges and feeding of priests on anniversaries) which Dayananda pronounced as superstitions or self-serving.
Far from borrowing concepts from other religions, as Raja Ram Mohan Roy had done, Swami Dayananda was quite critical of Islam and Christianity as may be seen in his book Satyartha Prakash. He was against what he considered to be the corruption of the pure faith in his own country. Unlike many other reform movements within Hinduism, the Arya Samaj's appeal was addressed not only to the educated few in India, but to the world as a whole as evidenced in the 6th principle of the Arya Samaj. Arya Samaj is a rare stream in Hinduism that allows and encourages converts to Hinduism.
Dayananda’s concept of Dharma is succinctly set forth in his Beliefs and Disbeliefs. He said, "I accept as Dharma whatever is in full conformity with impartial justice, truthfulness and the like; that which is not opposed to the teachings of God as embodied in the Vedas. Whatever is not free from partiality and is unjust, partaking of untruth and the like, and opposed to the teachings of God as embodied in the Vedas - that I hold as adharma." Again he says "He, who after careful thinking, is ever ready to accept truth and reject falsehood; who counts the happiness of others as he does that of his own self, him I call just."
He was the among the first great Indian stalwarts who popularised the concept of swaraj - the right to self-determination vested in an individual - when India was ruled by the British. His philosophy inspired nationalists in the mutiny of 1857[citation needed] as well as champions such as Lala Lajpat Rai and Bhagat Singh.
Dayananda's Vedic message was to emphasize respect and reverence for other human beings, supported by the Vedic notion of the divine nature of the individual - divine because the body was the temple where the human essence (soul or "Atma") could possibly interface with the creator ("ParamAtma"). In the 10 principles of the Arya Samaj, he enshrined the idea that "All actions should be performed with the prime objective of benefitting mankind" as opposed to following dogmatic rituals or revering idols and symbols. In his own life, he interpreted Moksha to be a lower calling (due to its benefit to one individual) than the calling to emancipate others.
Dayananda's back-to-the-Vedas message influenced many thinkers. Taking the cue from him, Sri Aurobindo decided to look for hidden psychological meanings in the Vedas [1]. Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. 1972.
The ideology presented in the works of Dayananda has been used to support the Hindutva movement of the 20th century. Ruthven (2007:108) regards his "elevation of the Vedas to the sum of human knowledge, along with his myth of the Aryavartic kings" as an instance of religious fundamentalism, but considers its consequences as nationalistic, since "Hindutva secularizes Hinduism by sacralizing the nation".

[edit] Works
Dayananda Saraswati wrote more than 60 works in all, including a 14 volume explanation of the six Vedangas, an incomplete commentary on the Ashtadhyayi (Panini's grammar), several small tracts on ethics and morality, Vedic rituals and sacraments and on criticism of rival doctrines (such as Advaita Vedanta). The Paropakarini Sabha located in the Indian city of Ajmer was founded by the Swami himself to publish his works and Vedic texts.
Satyartha Prakash / Light of Truth - translated to English published in 1908 [2][3]
R̥gvedādi-bhāṣya-bhūmikā / An Introduction to the Commentary on the Vedas. ed. B. Ghasi Ram, Meerut (1925). reprints 1981, 1984 [4] [5]
ed. New Book Society of India, Glorious Thoughts of Swami Dayananda (1966) [6]
Autobiography, ed. Kripal Chandra Yadav, New Delhi : Manohar, 1978.
Yajurvēda bhāṣyam : Samskr̥tabhāṣyaṃ, Āndhraṭīkātātparyaṃ, Āṅglabhāvārthasahitaṅgā, ed. Mar̲r̲i Kr̥ṣṇāreḍḍi, Haidarābād : Vaidika Sāhitya Pracāra Samiti, 2005.
The philosophy of religion in India, Delhi : Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2005, ISBN 8180900797

[edit] Death
Dayananda's ideas cost him his life. He was poisoned in 1883 while a guest of the Maharaja of Jodhpur. On his deathbed, he forgave his poisoner, the Maharaja's cook, and actually gave him money to flee the king's wrath. He died on October 31st, 1883 at Ajmer during the evening of Diwali.

[edit] References
Prem Lata, Swami Dayananda Sarasvati (1990) [7]
Autobiography of Swami Dayanand Saraswati (1976) [8]
M. Ruthven, Fundamentalism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, USA (2007), ISBN 978-0199212705.
N. A. Salmond, Hindu Iconoclasts: Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati and nineteenth-century polemics against Idolatry (2004) [9]

[edit] External links
Official Website of Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Satyarth Prakash - THE "LIGHT OF TRUTH" by Swami Dayanand Online book
Critical Assesment of Swami Dayanand's contribution to 19th century Hindu renaissance by Saurav Basu
[10] Paropkarini Sabha, Ajmer founded by Swami Dayanand
Sage Dayanand Saraswati by Jyotsna Kamat

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