Swami Dayananda Saraswati was born in a village Tankara near Morbi in Rajkot district of Gujarat on 12th
February 1824. He is known as the first leader to give the call for
Swarajya. He propounded India for Indians. Later on Lokmanya Tilak
continued the movement. Swami Dayananda is also the founder of Arya
Samaj. Even though in the beginning he was an ardent worshiper of Lord
Shiva, yet later he advocated ancient Vedic traditions of Hinduism. He
expressed that ideal that idol worship had brought many ills in the
Hindu society. In Vedic tradition chanting mantras and performing havans
are prominent.
We pay our heartfelt tribute to the great Swami who devoted all his life for reforming Hinduism and for propagating education.
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Dr. S. Radhakrishnan who was a great philosopher and also the President
of India called Swamiji as one of the ‘makers of modern India’. Shri
Aurobindo Ghosh also gave great importance to the contribution of Swami
Dayananda in modernizing the Hindu society. There were many others who
were deeply influence by Swami Dayananda. These included Madam Cama,
Pandit Guru Dutt Vidyarthi, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Lala Hardayal,
Madan Lal Dhingra, Ram Prasad Bismil, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Swami
Shraddhananda, Mahatma Hansraj, Lala Lajpat Rai and others.
Maharshi Dayanda believed in the philosophy of Karma. Further, he was a
first to call Dalits, Harijans long before Mahatma Gandhi, though it is
attributed to the latter. The D. A. V organization was started by Swami
Dayananda. Even today many schools and colleges are run by the
organization not only in Gujarat but also in Rajasthan, Punjab, U.P and
various other states.
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