Swami Dayanand Saraswati (1824-1883)
Swami Dayanand Saraswati (1824-1883) 🙏🙏 Swami Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of Arya Samaj, was born in a conservative Brahmin family of Gujrat, in 1824. In his childhood, he was known as Moolshankar. His father, Karsanji Trivedi, was a Tehsildar in Morbi, Kathiawar in Gujarat. He was raised in the orthodox Hindu tradition but soon he found himself unsatisfied with the archaic teachings and practices. At a very young age, he lost faith in idol worship, when on Shivaratri night, (when he was keeping awake to seek blessings of Lord Shiva) he saw mice running over the idol of Shiva. This greatly shocked him and he could not reconcile with the idea of an omnipotent living God, with this idol, which allowed mice to run over his body. Thus, in a flash, the maladies which afflicted Hinduism in those days appeared before him. Hindu religion should be freed from superstitions, dogmas, excess of ritualism and a new social order should be striven for, which would be free from th