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Dayanada
and Arya Samaj
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and inability in contacting and penetrating the
mystery of
Dayananda's
Theology—Editor) his
social activities and practices were of intripid
boldness, with regard to questions of fact he went
furthur than the Ramakrishna Mission ventures
to-day.
His creation, the Arya Samaj, postulates in
principle equal justice for all men and all nations,
together with equality of the sexes. It repudiates a
hereditary caste system, and only recognises
professions or guilds, suitable to the complementary
aptitudes of men in society; religion was to have no
part in these divisions but only the service of the
state, which assesses the tasks to be performed. The
state alone, if it considers it for the good of the
community, can raise or degrade a man from one
caste to another by way of reward or punishment,
they have attributes which are not interchangeable and each
accomplishes certain functions. They are, however,
inseparable. The Creation, the essential exercise of Divine
Energy, is accomplished over primordial elements, which
it combines and orders. The terrestrial bondage of the soul
is caused by ignorance. Salvation is emancipation from
error and the attainment of the freedom of God. But it is
only for a time, at the end of which the soul retakes another
body etc.