WHO WAS THE GREAT DAYANANDA........
1.
Swami Dayanand, Yug
Pravartak / Yug Drashta, Founder of Arya Samaj, rebuilt the entire Indian
nation & HINDU Society in a NEW Mould where every Hindu & Arya had
to believe firmly that this country “BHARAT” is their own land & No
person of FOREIGN BIRTH could ever become HEAD of its affairs in any way.
2.
He believed &
proved that in our Vedas there was NO SUCH thing as UNTOUCHABILITY. He
& through his Arya Samaj succeeded in launching a Great movement against
UNTOUCHABILITY which was followed up & taken up by Gandhiji & Congress
in a BIG way during our Freedom struggle & post-independence.
3.
Child Marriages: In Maharishi Dayanand’s days, the child marriages were a very
common factor. Maharishi Dayanand & his Arya Samaj propagated against this
curse from our Hindu Society. Even now, it is prevalent in certain regions
& amongst backward Hindus.
4.
Maharishi Dayanand
& its Arya Samaj launched yet another related curse of Hindu Society,
namely, marrying more than one wife or POLYGAMY: Arya Samaj through
“Magic Lantern” Arya Pracharaks who travelled widely deep into the villages
& towns successfully removed this evil from our Hindu society.
(Subsequently, it was lawfully abolished under Hindu Code bill).Still there are
examples of this curse of POLYGAMY amongst our Hindus, which is spreading like
a menace which requires to be controlled at all levels, specially our
Politicians & Affluent class require some Ved Prachar for it.
5.
Arya Samaj
successfully fought with the orthodox Brahmin Community & established that
there was No example in the Vedas to worship the idol as God is OMNIPOTENT,
OMNI_PRESENT & FORMLESS, once it is omnipresent, it cannot be confined
under lock & key any where NOR even in their so called Temples which have
become Nothing more that “Religious shops ” for the pundits.
6.
Dayanand preached
& pleaded with the Orthodox Hindu Community to return to Vedas in
true sense & to follow its dictates. He organized to obtain the Original
Vedas from Germany & translated them in simple Sanskrit & Hindi along
with his famous Book, “RIGVED BHASHYA”, “SOLAH SANSKARS”, etc.
7.
Swami Dayanand
propagated that all people are born equal & No one is Brahmin,
Vaishya, Kshathriya or Shudra by birth, but these are according to the
profession one chooses and each of these sects are complimentary to each other
& None is superior or inferior to the other.
8.
Dayanand infused a
thought amongst our Hindu Society that the West has NOT contributed anything
towards the emancipation of our Country’s welfare, rather the West owe to
us for everything, every progress which they unjustifiably claim of theirs,
including the invention of “ZERO”.
9.
Dayanand strongly
believed in a National Religion, based on INTENSE DEDICATED, TRUE, SELFLESS,
FEARLESS NATIONALISM, a thought which he propagated amongst all the Hindus
of India, preparing for Self-Rule & Freedom, based on equality ; its
details are enshrined in “SATYARTH PRAKSH” by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati.
This was his life’s greatest mission
10. Brought about widows re-marriages amongst
the Hindus.
11. Pleaded & stopped the most barbaric &
most orthodox “Sati- Pratha” amongst the Hindus of our country.
12. Dayanand & Its Arya Samaj hit hard on
the Blind faiths of Hindu Society & awakened them of these fake/ false
Blind faiths which were spread amongst Hindu Society falsely by various
orthodox Hindu organizations.
13. Shuddhi Prachaar of Dayanand Saraswati & Arya Samaj was & still the
Greatest contribution to Hindu Society, thereby bringing back our brothers
& sisters whom we had lost to other religions owing to our orthodox
beliefs.
14. Spread of education to all irrespective of one
being a boy or girl, of being a Brahmin or of other so called castes. Dayanand & its Arya Samaj played its greatest role in
starting women’s Education everywhere in India & to everyone irrespective
of Caste, Creed, Sex, etc.
15. In the field of Education again
Maharishi Dayanand played its greatest role in strengthening Hindu Society.
16. Dayanand’s Arya Samaj opened its First Orphanage
in Firozepore, followed by a chain of Orphanages all over the country so that
our orphans may not adopt other religions like Islam or Christianity.
17. In the same way, Dayanand’s Arya Samaj opened
Homes for the widows & Destitute women to accommodate, train them in
some useful profession & to get them married to suitable partners in
course.
18. Dayanand / Arya Samaj succeeded in removing
the Pardha System from our Hindu Society and Brought Hindu women at par
with men-folk.
19. Dayanand launched a movement successfully that studying
of Sanskrit, Vedas & Upanishads is NOT restricted to Brahmins alone but
every caste had equal Rights to study these including women-folk.
20. Dayanand
& its Arya Samaj gave Rights to wear Yagopaveet to every Hindu
irrespective of one’s birth.
21. In those days, any Hindu Travellers
overseas, had to undergo penance & give away a lot of gifts to Orthodox
Brahmins for allowing them to re-admit to Hindu Dharma, but Dayanand got rid of
such ills from Orthodox Hindu Society.
22. Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati, first time, told
the Hindu Society the difference of the meaning of good Governance & “own
Independent Rule” & instigated people to demand self/own independent rule
& to throw away the foreign yoke of slavery of the Britrishers. Maharishi
Dayanand was the First Indian who announced for the FIRST Time that Bharatvarsh
is only of Bharatvasies & we should have our own Self Independent Rule.
23. Maharishi Dayanand & its Arya Samaj emphasized
on Swadeshi & patronizing of Swadeshi Products only amongst all the Hindu Community.
24. If HINDI
remained the main stay of our freedom struggle, it was because of Maharishi Dayanand,
even today, Dayanand’s Arya Samaj can take this credit for the Promotion of
Hindi as a National language all over the country.
25. Dayanand & its Arya Samaj gave to Hindu
Orthodox Society, great thinkers, National Leaders & Revolutionaries like: Lala
Lajpat Rai, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Shri
Arvind Ghosh, Bhai Parmanand, Bhai Shyamji Krishna Verma, Bhagat Singh, Ram
Prasad Bismil, Bhai Bal Mukund, Madanlal Dhingra, Madan Mohan Malviya, Swami
Shraddhanand & Pandit Lekhram & others as well as Most of the
revolutionaries, who defacto brought about our Independence.
26. Dayanand & Arya Samaj always believe that begging
is a worst thing, it is never liked by any one, rather it demoralizes the
beggar, hence Dayanand insisted the Hindu Society as a whole to stand on its
own feet, on its own good deeds & to come forward to sacrifice one’s life
for the Nation .
27. Hindu Women have to pay back to Swami Dayanand
Saraswati the Greatest, if he had NOT come forward to
improve their Social Rights, rights to educate themselves, right to read Vedas,
Upanishads, Remarriages, equal rights as per men’s, abolition of Dowry system,
equal opportunity to select their partners, etc. The Indian women could never
have attained their emancipation & would have remained as backward as
Muslim women of the world.
Prepared by N. Vedaprakash, Vedic scholar & son of late (Acharya) Narendra Bhooshan, the greatest Vedic scholar of all times, dedicated his life for spreading Vedas to all.
