Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Quotes
An Indian philosopher and social reformer, he founded the Arya Samaj, a movement aimed at promoting Vedic knowledge, social equality, and a reformed Hindu society. He advocated for the removal of caste-based discrimination, idol worship, and other social ills, emphasizing the importance of education and the belief in one God. Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s contributions to the Indian Renaissance included encouraging women's rights, promoting scientific thinking, and reviving the study of the ancient Vedas as a way to promote truth and morality.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Quotes
An Indian philosopher and social reformer, he founded the Arya Samaj, a movement aimed at promoting Vedic knowledge, social equality, and a reformed Hindu society. He advocated for the removal of caste-based discrimination, idol worship, and other social ills, emphasizing the importance of education and the belief in one God. Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s contributions to the Indian Renaissance included encouraging women's rights, promoting scientific thinking, and reviving the study of the ancient Vedas as a way to promote truth and morality.
Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it keep your mind completely on the task.
It is not wrong to be an ignorant; it is an error to continue to be an ignorant.
Surely there is neither past nor future for divinity!
Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.
It is the right to love and serve all mankind.
Be free, hope for nothing from anyone, and be free.
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.
Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.
The tongue should express what is in the heart.
What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.
In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied – ‘This should not happen to me.’ It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.
The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.
People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.
The key to happiness is not in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.
Purify your mind, clean your body, sanctify your world.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
The works of present life are more important than the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
Do not undervalue yourself. Human life is as high as God Himself.
Validation of culture of a child is itself validation of a child itself.
We need to know luck is also earned and not imposed! There is no un-earned grace.
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