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    Arya Samaj was founded in 1875 by Swami Dayanand Saraswati, who was born in a Brahmin family in Gujarat. After studying the Vedas and Indian philosophy for 15 years as a wandering scholar, Dayanand concluded that Aryans and the Vedas were chosen by God and founded the Arya Samaj based on this belief. Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement that supports principles based on the Vedas, such as believing in one God and rejecting idol worship and fate, while advocating for social reform like equal status for women and ending practices like sati and child marriage.

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    Arya Samaj was founded in 1875 by Swami Dayanand Saraswati, who was born in a Brahmin family in Gujarat. After studying the Vedas and Indian philosophy for 15 years as a wandering scholar, Dayanand concluded that Aryans and the Vedas were chosen by God and founded the Arya Samaj based on this belief. Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement that supports principles based on the Vedas, such as believing in one God and rejecting idol worship and fate, while advocating for social reform like equal status for women and ending practices like sati and child marriage.

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    Arya Samaj was founded in 1875 by Swami Dayanand Saraswati, who was born in a Brahmin family in Gujarat. After studying the Vedas and Indian philosophy for 15 years as a wandering scholar, Dayanand concluded that Aryans and the Vedas were chosen by God and founded the Arya Samaj based on this belief. Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement that supports principles based on the Vedas, such as believing in one God and rejecting idol worship and fate, while advocating for social reform like equal status for women and ending practices like sati and child marriage.

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    Arya samaj

    Arya samaj was founded by swami Dayanand Sarasvati in 1875. Dayanand

    Sarasvati was born in a brahmin family in Gujarat. His real name was Mul

    Shankar. At the age of 21 he left home in order to escape the entanglement of

    marriage and to seek to pacify the turmoil and commotion of his soul. For 15

    years he led the life of a wandering scholar in search of knowledge. he spent

    two and a half years at Mathura as a disciple of a blind saint swami Vrijananda,

    who taught him the philosophic interpretation of Vedas.

    After deeply studying the Vedas and Indian Philosophy, Dayanand came to the

    conclusion that Aryans were the chosen people, the Vedas the chosen gospel

    and India the chosen land. Based on this belief he founded the Arya samaj in

    Bombay in 1875. After some years the headquarters of Arya samaj were setup

    at Lahore.

    Arya samaj is a monotheistic Hindu reform movement in India that supports

    principles and practices based on the Vedas. Arya samaj was the first Hindu

    group to practice proselytization. Unlike the Brahmo samaj, the Arya samaj

    never cut itself aloof from the mainstream of Hindu thoughts.


    Principles of Arya Samaj

    . Believes in infallibility of the Vedas and take them as only truth and source of
    all source and knowledge. Believed that post- Vedic text such as puranas were

    responsible for pollution of Vedic religion.

    . opposes the idol worship and reincarnation theory of God but accepts the
    doctrine of Karma and transmigration of soul. Dayanand also rejected the

    theory of destiny or niyati.

    . Believes in one God who has no physical existence.

    . Rejects the Brahmanical dominance of spiritual and social life of Hindus.


    Denounce claims of Brahmins as intermediaries between men and God.

    . Supported four Varna system but the Varna system should be based on merit

    not birth.

    . Advocated equal status for women in society. he said that there is no room

    for any kind of discrimination against women on the basis of gender.

    . Advocated widow remarriage, female education and opposed polygamy, child

    marriage and Sati.


    . he backed the propagation of Hindi and Sanskrit. Considered good education

    as a base of a good and solid social system. It did phenomenal work in the field

    of education even for women.

    . denounces socio-religious evils such as animal sacrifices, religious pilgrimages,

    feeding the dead through shraddhas, magic and charms etc. According to

    Swami Dayanand, these evils exist in the society due to ignorance of the

    teaching of Vedas.

    . An individual should always remain ready to accept the truth in place of

    untruth.

    . All actions should be performed according to Dharma and after considering

    the right and wrong of each. Do the right, shun the wrong that is the formula .

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