Today is the Nirvana Divas of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati, the creator of modern India, the thinker, the one who ended many evils in the society, the one who led the way towards re-reading the Vedas, the role model of thousands of independent revolutionaries and the founder of Arya Samaj.
This is why the people of India have feelings of respect for Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati ji. Not only because he founded Arya Samaj, but because the same celibate yogi Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati ji did many things for Indians. Due to which India got a new identity.
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Special on the Nirvana Divas of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati Ji
Let us know specifically about the Nirvana Divas of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati in this article through Ugta Bharat newspaper.
- Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati never compromised with untruth.
- To end the symbol of foreign mentality and slavery that had been prevalent for hundreds of years, Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati gave women and Shudras their fundamental rights in the society.
- Awakened India’s identity and self-respect.
- Shaken the soul of sleeping India and taught it to follow the path of renaissance and social reform.
- Before establishing Arya Samaj in 1875, he taught Swadeshi and Swadeshi language and started a movement to boycott foreign goods.
- First of all, he made pure commentaries of Vedas in Sanskrit as well as Hindi.
- First opened an orphanage in Firozpur.
- First of all, he opened a cow shelter in Rewari, Haryana and wrote the book ‘Gokarunanidhi’ to explain the importance of cows, animals, birds and vegetarianism.
- First of all, he started Arya Samaj and introduced the democratic system in it.
- First wrote his autobiography in Hindi
- In 1882, a nationwide campaign was launched to stop cow slaughter and give an advertisement containing two crore signatures to Queen Victoria.
- In 1880, he first corresponded with a German expert, Professor G. Wise, for industrial and technological development in India. So that Indian students can be trained for art skills.
- To propagate the truth, he endured countless insults and even drank poison, but never thought anything bad about his opponents.
- Wrote an invaluable book like Satyarth Prakash, by reading which we get the discrimination between truth and falsehood.
- Initiated patriotism and patriotism, which led to national awakening. And many revolutionaries were born who sacrificed everything for the freedom of the country.
- By writing a book like Sanskaarvidhi, he revived the sacred tradition of the ancient Vedic sixteen rituals (shodash sanskaar).
- The Vedas revealed the true form of God and explained Sandhyopasana, Yoga practice etc. to attain Him and to interview Him.
- The evidence of Vedic philosophy (Tritvaad) based on these three eternal elements – God-Jiva-Nature – was presented clearly and logically.
- Struggled till death against the superstitions, hypocrisy, evil practices, unscientific thinking etc. prevalent in the country.
- And finally ‘O God! Saying ‘May your wish be fulfilled’ he surrendered himself to the infinite Brahma.
Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati: What did many eminent personalities say about him?
It has been published in Ugta Bharat newspaper, what many great people said about Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati ji. Let us know about this today on the Nirvana Divas of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati Ji.
The first to give the mantra of Swarajya and Swadeshi was Dayanand, the shining star
Lokmanya Tilak
Dayanand was the founder of modern India. Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati was one of those great men who created modern India by making the first declaration of independence.Arya Samaj has a big role in the salvation of Hindu society.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Make truth your goal and consider Maharishi Dayanand as your ideal.
Swami Shraddhanand
Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati is such a big personality that I am not even worthy of tying his shoelaces.
A.O.Hume
Swami ji was such a learned and excellent person, whom other followers also respected.
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
After Adi Shankaracharya, Dayanand was the most fearless attacker on evil.
Madame Blavatsky
Rishi Dayanand appeared to free people from prison and break caste barriers. His ideal is – Aryavarta! Get up, wake up, move forward. The time has come, enter the new era.
French writer Richard
Gandhiji is the Father of the Nation, but Swami Dayanand is the Pitaamah (Grandfather) of the Nation.
Pattabhi Sitaramaiya
The foundation of India’s independence was actually laid by Swami Dayanand
Sardar Patel
Swami Dayanand was the first person who declared Aryavarta (India) for the Aryavartis (Indians).
Annie Besant
Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati was the first warrior of the freedom struggle.
Veer Savarkar
The fire of knowledge of Rishi Dayanand is a wonderful example of the basic alphabetic principle of the world.
Dr. Vasudev Sharan Agarwal
Intellectualism, the method of interpretation of the Vedas given by Rishi Dayananda,“It is the result of a wonderful combination of utility, nationalism and the traditional dictates of Hindutva.
H. C. E. Zackarius
I respect Swami Dayanand because of the hardships he endured for his patriotism, his courage, celibate life and many other qualities. His life becomes an example for us. The Indians gave them poison and they gave nectar to India.
Sardar Patel
Dayanand was a true soldier of divine knowledge, a warrior who brought the world under the shelter of God, an architect of human beings and institutions, and a valiant conqueror of the obstacles placed by nature in the path of souls.
Yogi Aurobindo
I have got the most inspiration in the freedom struggle from the books of Maharishi.
Dadabhai Naoroji
The service I have done to the nation, caste and society goes to Shri Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati.
Shyamji Krishna Verma
Swami Dayanand is my Guru, I have considered him the only Guru in the world, he is the father of my religion and Arya Samaj is the mother of my religion, I have grown up in the lap of both of them, I am proud of the fact that my Guru gave me the freedom. Taught the lesson.
Punjab Kesari Lala Lajpat Rai
Maharishi Dayanand, who did unprecedented work in the public sector, was a great national leader and revolutionary great man
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Even if each page of Satyarth Prakash becomes worth Rs 1,000, I will sell all my property and buy it. He described Satyarth Prakash as a pistol of fourteen guns.
Pandit Gurudutt Vidyarthi
I am seeing that fierce fire which is moving forward burning all the evils of the world, the fire in the form of Arya Samaj which came from the heart of Swami Dayanand and spread in the world.
American pastor Andrew Jackson
If Arya Samaj continues to runs, Hindu society will continue to walk. If Arya Samaj continues to walk, Hindu Samaj will sit down. If Arya Samaj sits down, Hindu Samaj will sleep. And if Arya Samaj goes to sleep then Hindu Samaj will die.
Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
If a temple is built for all the freedom fighters, then Maharishi Dayanand will be at the top on the top of the temple.
Mrs. Annie Besant
Maharishi Dayanand was such a good and learned man that he deserved respect for the followers of every religion.
Syed Ahmed Khan
It is scary to even imagine what would have been the condition of India if Arya Samaj had not existed. When the work of Arya Samaj started, there was no trace of Congress anywhere. The first call for Swarajya was made by Maharishi Dayanand. It was Arya Samaj which worked to bring the derailed train of Indian society back on track. Had there not been Arya Samaj, there would have been no Bharat as Bharat.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
India’s great nationalist, fearless intellectual, influential writer and historian Shri Sitaram Goyal, who himself was a leftist in his early days, later became a Hindu. Thoughts on Swami Dayanand from his book How I Became Hindu” by Sitaram Goel ji,
Once upon a time, Goyal ji was shocked after reading some comments in ‘Satyarth Prakash’. Therefore at that time he had come to the conclusion that Swami Dayanand was unnecessarily cruel to some religious persons. And his way of thinking was wrong. But years later when he entered public life.
And read Sri Aurobindo’s book….. ‘Bankim-Tilak-Dayananda‘, understanding the value of Swami Dayananda’s far-reaching thinking and the impact of his words and deeds. He was successful in repenting and expressing his respect towards the Maharishi.
Shri Goyal writes that….
I express my remorse and respect to the fearless lion who tried his best to save and revive the Vedic vision among Hindus. At the same time a real understanding and appreciation of the important national, cultural role that the Arya Samaj had played at an important juncture in our national life.
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Compilation: Devendra Singh Arya
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