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Contribution of Arya Samaj to our
Hindu Samaj & to our Nation
-s.C.
Gupta,
Mum6ai
1. Swami Dayanand, founder of Arya Samaj, wanted to rebuilt the entire Indian Nation
& Hindu Society in a New Mould where every Hindu / Arya had to believe firmly that
this country " BHARATVARSH" is their own land.
2. He believed & proved that in our Vedas there was NO SUCH things as
UNTOUCHABILITY & he & through his Arya Samaj he succeeded in launching a
Great movement against. Untouchability which was followed up & taken up by
Gandhiji & Congress in a BIG way during our Freedom struggle & post -
independence.
3. Child Marriages :
In Maharishi Dayanand's days, the child marriages were a very
common factor. Maharishi Dayanand & his Arya Samaj propagated against the curse
from our Hindu Society.
4. Arya
Samaj Launched against yet another related curse of Hindu Society,
namely, marrying more than one wife / POLYGAMY :
Arya Samaj through
Magical Lantern "Arya
Pracharaks who travelled widely deep into the villages &
towns successfully removed this evil from our Hindu Society.
5. Arya Samaj
Successfully fought with the orthodox Brahmin Community &
Established that there was no example in the Vedas to worship the idol as God is
OMNIPOTENT, OMNI-PRESENT & FORMLESS,
once it is omnipresent, it
cannot be confined under lock & key any where and Shri Ram & Shri Krishna are our
God like reality who had never- never committed any sin or any wrong doings, hence
only, Arya Sajam regards them as maryada purshottom, Great Aryan but not as Ishwar.
6. Dayanand & Arya Samaj pleaded with the orthodox hindu community to return
to Vedas
in true sense & to follow its dictates. He organized to obtain the original
Vedas from Germany & translated them in simple Sanskrit & Hindi along with his
famous Book,
"Rigved Bhashya", Solah Sanskars'
etc.
7. Aryasamaj propagated that all peoples are born equal &
no one is Brahmin,
Vaishya, Kshatriya or Shudra by birth, but these are according to the profession one
chooses and each of these sects are complimentary to each other & none is superior or
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