Swami Dayanand Saraswati
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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.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
Man is to become divine by realizing the divine.
The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.
Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
The highest form of service is to help a person who is incapable of thanking in return.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure house of knowledge.
The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.
The whole world is a collection of mere sounds. When these sounds form compound words, they become names and everything is known by a name.
People say that they understand what I say and I am simple. I am not simple, I am clear.
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
Truth alone triumphs, not untruth.
Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is reached.
Faith in oneself and in one's own powers is the first essential of success.
I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.
The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible.
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism – nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
If I am pure, I can create a world with my own eyes.
You want to change others so that you can be free. But, it never works that way. Accept others and you are free.
Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.
God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.
