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14 Dayanada and Arya Samaj
date for India when a Brahmin not only
acknowledged that all human beings have the right
to know the Vedas, whose study had been previously
prohibited by orthodox Brahmins, but insisted that
their study and propaganda was the duty of every
Arya.1
The commentary on the Vedas was prepared
under
the guidance
and
instruction of the
great
Maharshi
himself. He directed the train of pandits and also revised
and corrected the writings. (Editors)
1
Article III of the ten principles of Lahore 1877.
"The Vedas
are
the books of all true knowledge. The
duty of every
Arya
is to learn them and to teach them."
By
a
strange accident
Dayananda
concluded
a
political alliance lasting several years ( 1879-1881) with a
Western Community, destined for a great work, the
Theosophical Society, on the basis of his vindication of
the Vedas against the rising flood of Christianity.
Theosophical Society was founded in 1875 in the south of
India by a Russian, Mme. Blavatsky, and American,
Colonel Olcott,
and
had the great merit of stimulating the
Hindus to study their sacred texts especially the Gita
and
the Upnishads, six volumes of which Colonel Olcott
published in Sanskrit. It also headed the movement for
the establishment of Indian schools
for
'untouchables'. It,
therefore, contributed to the national, religious,
and
social
awakening of India and
Dayananda
seemed
about
to make
common cause with it. But when the society took him
at