Bharat Bhushan Arya
Maharishi Dayanand Sarswati, a true sanyasi, great philosopher, writer, an ideal statesman, a staunch supporter of women empowerment, motivating force for hundreds and thousands of freedom fighters, was born on Badi Dashmi of Phalgun Vikrami Samvat 1881 ( 1824 A.D.) in a small village of Tankara in Mourvi State of Kathiyawad, now Gujrat. At the age of 14 years only, the festival of Mahashivratri was the turning point of his life ,when he decided to dedicate his whole life in search of true “Shiva”, The God.
Most of the people in India do not know the role of Maharishi Dayanand Sarswati in the freedom struggle of India.
Historically it is true that our freedom struggle against the then Tyrant English Rulers started in the year 1857 with the martyrdom of Mangal Pandey, Maharani Laxmibai and many other sons of the soil. That was the time when Maharishi Dayanand Sarswati ,the staunch supporter of our own Govt. ,was also busy in motivating our young generation to come forward and raise their voice against the foreign rulers . Maharishi’s views are reflected in his great book” Satyarth Prakash ” published in the year 1875.
Maharishi Dayanand Sarswati was role model of many freedom fighters like Punjab Kesri Lal Lajpat Rai, Sardar Kishen Singh , Neta ji Subhash Chander Bose,Veer Savarkar , Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Ashfaq Ulla Khan ,Udham Singh, Kartar Singh Saraba ,Ram Prasad Bismill , Shyam ji Krishan Verma,Chander Shekhar Azad, Khudi Ram Bose ,Lala Hardyal and many others , who took motivation from preachings of Maharishi Dayanand Sarswati and by associating themselves with Arya Samaj .
Maharishi Dayanand Sarswati took great pain for revival of Vedic Philosophy in India
“because according to him,”the ultimate aim of life” (Moksh), can be achieved only by following the path of Vedas. For continuance of preachings of Vedic Philosophy and social reform works, Maharishi established “Arya Samaj ” in the year 1875 by saying that Arya Samaj is neither a religion nor any Panth but it is a World Wide Social Reforms Movement to which everybody should be associated. 10 principles of Arya Samaj are the guiding principles for the welfare of whole world .
Maharishi Dayanand Sarswati has written a number of books concerning human life.Some of these are Satyarth Prakash,Ved Bhasya ,Rigvedadi Bhashya Bhumika , Sanskar Vidhi, Panchmahayagya Vidhi , Sandhya, aryodeshyarattanmala ,Gokarunnidhi etc.
14th Feb 2015 is 191st jayanti of Maharishi Dayanand Sarswati. We must pay our homage to the great sanyasi by following the preachings of Maharishi in true spirit .
(The author is President Arya Pratinidhi Sabha J&K)
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