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2 giorni fa · Dayananda Sarasvati (original name Mula Sankara), Hindu ascetic and social reformer who was the founder (1875) of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement advocating a return to the temporal and spiritual authority of the Vedas, the earliest scriptures of India.
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Dayananda Sarasvati ( Tankara, 1825 – Ajmer, 1883) è stato uno scrittore e filosofo indiano il cui vero nome fu Mool Shankar Tiwari . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Note. 3 Bibliografia. 4 Altri progetti. 5 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia.
- Birth and Early Life
- The Wandering Ascetic and Crusader
- The Light of Truth
- Arya Samaj
- The Vedas
- Death
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Sarasvati was born as Mula Sankara in 1824, in Tankara, a city in the modern-day Indian state of Gujarat. He came from a wealthy Brahminfamily. Brahmins are the highest Indian caste, or social hereditary class, which consists of religious leaders, teachers, and intellectuals. Sankara received an education both in orthodox (traditional) Hinduism and...
Dayananda Sarasvati spent nearly twenty-five years, from 1845 to 1869, as a wandering ascetic, searching for religious truth. An ascetic is someone who gives up material goods and lives a life of self-denial, devoted to spiritual matters. He lived in jungles, in retreats in the Himalayan Mountains, and at a number of pilgrimage sites in northern In...
Two important events in Dayananda Sarasvati's life occurred in 1875. The first of these was the publication of his book Sathyartha Prakasha(Light of Truth). This was Dayananda Sarasvati's most important published work. In the book, he outlined his beliefs in a very brief and direct way. For example, he wrote, "I hold that the four Vedas … are the W...
In 1875 Sarasvati also formed the Arya Samaj, which can be translated into English as "Society of Aryans." The Aryans were speakers of an original, unrecorded Indo-European language from which many of the languages spoken in Europe and Central Asiaare descended. Thousands of years ago the Aryans moved eastward into the Indian subcontinent. The Arya...
The Vedas, Hinduism's sacred scripture, consist principally of a large number of hymns or songs. These hymns were composed by early Hindu wise men who, according to traditional belief, heard them in ecstatic (highly emotional and trancelike) visions. Most scholars date the Vedas at about 1500 to 1200 bce, although some claim they are even older and...
Dayananda Sarasvati continued to preach his views for the remainder of his life. He engaged Christians and Muslims in debate and gained a reputation for being an opponent of those religions. He also offended orthodox, or traditional, Hindus because he challenged their views. Several attempts were made on his life. In 1883 Dayananda Sarasvati was a ...
BOOKS
"Dayananda Saraswati, Swami." In Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2nd ed. 17 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research, 1998. Jordens, J. T. F. Dayananda Sarasvati: His Life and Ideas. Delhi, India: Oxford UniversityPress, 1978. Salmond, Noel A. Hindu Iconoclasts: Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and Nineteenth-Century Polemics against Idolatry. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.
WEB SITES
Sarasvati, Dayananda. The Light of Truth. http://www.victoriaaryasamaj.org/lotruth.pdf (accessed on June 2, 2006). Sundaram, V. "A Great Harbinger of Hindu Renaissance." News Today. http://newstodaynet.com/12oct/ss1.htm (accessed on June 2, 2006).
Lawrence University. Minoo Adenwalla. Jordens, J. T. F.: Dayananda Sarasvati: His Life and Ideas. (Delhi, Oxford. University Press, 1979), vii + 368 pp., $ 15.50. Among American historians of modern South Asia, the scholar who ignores social thought and cultural anthropology is a rare individual indeed. Americans.
DAYANANDA SARASVATI (1824 – 1883), leading Hindu reformer and founder of the Ā rya Sam ā j, known by the westernized form of his religious name, Day ā nanda Sarasvat ī. What is known of Dayananda's early years comes from two autobiographical statements made after he founded the Ā rya Sam ā j in 1875.
Swami Dayānand Sarasvatī ( February 12, 1824 – October 30, 1883) was an important Hindu religious leader of his time.
1 gen 2006 · Books. Hindu Iconoclasts: Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and Nineteenth-Century Polemics against Idolatry. Noel Salmond. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, Jan 1, 2006 - Religion - 192 pages.
