Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Indian reformer, Arya Samaj founder.

An Indian philosopher and social reformer, he founded the Arya Samaj, a movement aimed at promoting Vedic knowledge, social equality, and a reformed Hindu society. He advocated for the removal of caste-based discrimination, idol worship, and other social ills, emphasizing the importance of education and the belief in one God. Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s contributions to the Indian Renaissance included encouraging women's rights, promoting scientific thinking, and reviving the study of the ancient Vedas as a way to promote truth and morality.

Swami Dayanand Saraswati Quotes about God

  • Do not undervalue yourself. Human life is as high as God Himself.
  • God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.
  • Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.
  • God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.