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Dayanada
and Arya Samaj
Divinity, his denials from which there was no
appeal, his implacable condemnations, his theism
of action, his credo of battle,' and finally his national
God.2
But in default of outpourings of the heart and
the calm sun of the spirit, bathing the nations of
men and their Gods in its effulgence Dayananda
transfused into the languid body of India his own
1
Among rules to be followed as set down at the
end of his "Satyarth Prakash' Dayananda orders; "seek
to combat, to humiliate, to destroy the wicked, even the
rulers of the world, the men in power. Seek
constantly to sap the power of the unjust and to
strengthen that of the just, even at the cost of terrible
suffering of death itself, which no man should seek to
avoid."
2
The Samaj will glorify, pray to and unite with the
one and only God, as shown by the Vedas. The conception
of God and the objects of the Universe is founded solely
on the teachings of the Vedas and the other true Shastras,
which he enumerates.
It is, however, curious (so strong was the current
of the age setting at all cost towards unity) that
Dayananda's nationalism like the unitarianism of Roy
and Keshab had universal pretensions.
The well being of humanity as a whole ought to
be the objective of the Samaj. "(Principles of the First
Arya Samaj of 1875).