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It is, therefore, imperative that sufficient
literature should be brought out in English (the
present link language in India) and other foreign
languages besides Hindi and other Indian languages
to educate the English reading people in India as
well as abroad about Swami Dayanand, who did a
yeoman service to resuscitate the true knowledge
of Vedas and ancient Indian learning. In fact, his
life time is the period of a sort of Renaissance of
Vedas because it was he who opened the doors to
this ancient all-encompassing knowledge shut by
selfish Puranic Brahmins to non-Brahmins in general
and lower caste people and women in particular.
Whole mankind is indebted to this great liberating
soul in bringing about equality in the domain of
learning.
In order to achieve this object we have first of
all selected to publish in English a short biography
of the Great Rishi who exhausted his life for
removing the dust over ancient treasure and thereby
for resurrection of the Vedas.
Most of the European scholars, who dwelt on
ancient Indian learning, have tried to distort our
ancient knowledge in order to ridicule it as compared
to so-called 'modern', 'logical' and 'scientific
knowledge' of Europe and 'liberal' Christianity. By
perusing this biography it is obvious that there are a
section of European scholars who have tried to give